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What is the correct grammatical end to a bullet statement
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". |
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What is the correct grammatical end to a bullet statement
If it's a complete sentence, I capitalize the first word, and end it with a
period. If it's just a phrase or thought, I don't. "beckyg" wrote in message ... | 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". |
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What is the correct grammatical end to a bullet statement
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 -- Windows XP, Word 2000 "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". |
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What is the correct grammatical end to a bullet statement
That's my practice as well.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Bear" (nospam) wrote in message ... 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 -- Windows XP, Word 2000 "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". |
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