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Default What is the correct grammatical end to a bullet statement

That's my practice as well.

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"Bear" (nospam) wrote in message
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Becky:

There is no answer in Help, or anywhere else for that matter. At least,

not
a definitive, universal answer. Casing and punctuation of bulleted lists

is a
style decision. It must be made at each shop. Once made it must be

enforced
and applied consistently.

In my shop, we follow these rules (derived from the Chicago Manual of

Style):

* Introduce lists with a grammatically complete sentence followed by a

colon.

* No item gets a period (or other terminating punctuation) unless one or
more items is a complete sentence, in which case each item gets

terminating
punctuation.

* Items in a list should be syntactically similar.

* All items begin with a captial letter. [Here we deviate from CMS.]

Bear
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"beckyg" wrote:

What is the correct way to end a bullet statement? Also, should bullet
statements be capitalized at the beginning? Any other grammatical tips

would
be helpful and appreciated! I could not find this information in

"help".