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Subject:RE: User Guide Question From:Tom Johnson <johnsont -at- starcutter -dot- com> To:"'Joanne Meehl'" <Jmeehl -at- datum -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:47:25 -0500
Well, have you considered putting it under "D"? For "dot" of course. Phone
books list names that begin with a number as if the number were spelled
out. A 9 would fall right after nincompoops. In our phone book there is
Nine-O-Five Beauty Salon, 905 Boon. There are also a bunch of Fours,
Eights, and Eighties. I didn't look beyond that. OK, I'm sort of joking and
maybe it isn't a good idea, but I thought I would bring it up. People know
how to use phone books and everything is going "dot com" these days and it
wouldn't surprise me if someone tried to look it up that way.
Tom Johnson
Technical Writer
Elk Rapids Engineering Div., Star Cutter Company
johnsont -at- starcutter -dot- com - work
thomasj -at- freeway -dot- net - personal
On Thursday, January 27, 2000 11:15 AM, Joanne Meehl
[SMTP:Jmeehl -at- datum -dot- com] wrote:
> A question from this newbie: Where, in an A-to-Z user guide, would an
entry
> for .cpk go? Or any "dot" entries, for that matter?
> I couldn't find anything in the archives on this. And my style guides
don't
> tell me, so I'm turning to you all.
> Thanks!
> Joanne
>
