Hi, Anastasia. The normal thing to do is use the words the first time, followed in parens by the letters, then use the letters after that. Hope this helps. Mickey ----- Original Message ----- From: Anastasia Saridakis To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 4:48 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] detail for my article Hi all I have a quick question in regards to my article. I wanted to knw if I should spell out what R F B and D and the NLS. Should I use the initials or spell out the words. It is an article for a blind magazine. Just a question. Thank you for your opinion ANastasia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates.