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I used to work for Fidelity Investments - a company that is very fond of
acronyms. (Hi Connie!) What's more, every acronym starts with Fidelity:
Fidelity Investments Development Organization (FIDO), Fidelity
Telecommunications Company (FTC), etc. ad nauseum. One of my writers
called our acronym list 'the F-words.'
We mandated that the first time an F-word was used in a chapter, it was
spelled out. Yes, it was possible to have Fidelity Telecommunications
Company spelled out 13 times in a document, if need be. But I think it
helped with the acronym vertigo. Plus, you can't count on users starting
in Chapter One and reading sequentially - our users skipped around. So,
anywhere they went in the book, they could count on learning what FTC was,
or FISM, or FSDC, or FSC, or FMR..or....
Amy
(who has a few choice F-words of her own that she can't publish here)
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Amy Smith, Notes User Assistance Group
Lotus Development Corp.
External: 617/693-9733 Tie line: 333-9733
amy_smith -at- lotus -dot- com
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