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Is a period (.) required after the middle initial of the name?

Andersen Donald Joseph
Andersen Donald Joseph ✭
October 7, 2021 in Indexing

Is a period (.) required after the middle initial of the name?

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  • Andersen Donald Joseph
    Andersen Donald Joseph ✭
    October 7, 2021

    Some say to copy "everything" on the original document and others say the middle-name period is not required.

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  • Melissa S Himes
    Melissa S Himes ✭✭✭✭✭
    October 7, 2021

    It depends on what the field help says. Lately, there has been a few projects that require punctuation to be included.

    To access the field helps, click on the field, and then click on the purple question mark that appears. There you will find the specific information like whether to include punctuation, when to expand abbreviations or not to expand abbreviation, to place commas between levels of locality, etc.

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