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Subject:Re: Use of Periods in Phone Numbers? From:Dan Martillotti <danm -at- DEV -dot- TIVOLI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:28:19 CDT
Are you dealing with an international or US audience? If the US, the
Southwestern Bell phone book uses 1-111-111-1111 or 1+111+111-1111. I would
think the people who do the phone books would be the "experts," don't you? :-)
I'm not sure what you would do for international audiences. I've seen dots,
dashes, spaces, parens, you name it.
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>I've gotten involved in a disagreement about the style in which phone
>numbers in a newsletter are to be written. The senior editor has
>instructed that all phone numbers are to be written "111.111.1111". I
>would prefer to see the more conventional style, "111-111-1111".
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