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>>Murrie Burgan said: Since the % symbol is a commonly used symbol and likely
to be recognized by the audience for the report, I see no reason why
you can't use it
instead of spelling out percent.
<<
Me too! I'm using the % symbol. There are too many occurances of
"percent" to spell it out, and this doc is certainly NOT "humanistic"
IMHO. The person who was looking it over kept making notes to herself
about consulting the Gregg manual. I don't use Gregg, but I bet it would
concur that % is okay to use in this case.
Thanks for everyone's replies!
Diane
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