In article <53d83d6e6ebrian.jord...@btinternet.com>, Brian Jordan <brian.jord...@btinternet.com> wrote: > In article <53d83be5c4bbai...@argonet.co.uk>, > Brian <bbai...@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> [Snip] > > Who'd have thought it?? Certainly not me. I'm intuitive but not that > > intuitive. I assumed that # was as per American practice and is part of > > any/all part codes. > I think the logic is that the "#" is in the caption alongside the box in > much the same way as we often see "£" alongside boxes when a sum of money > needs to be entered. Several of us seem to have fallen foul of this and > had to rewrite our reports, I reccommend writing reports in a text editor > and saving them as insurance and not putting the "#" in the version > number. OK, Brian, but I'm not into guessology. # is not a British convention anyway so far as I am aware, for some 80ish years, it's a hindrance! Why put it there when it serves no useful purpose, I ask?
