Agreed.  and you are correct.  It is much more critcal in an electronic world (including spaces) indents and extra lines.  Can't tell you how many hours I've spent chasing a file for finance because they didn't standardize the terminology.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Kurilecz <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Jul 10, 2008 4:07 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [RM] Question on Name Criteria for Electronic Records
>
>On 7/10/08, Tom Owens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> My point on the naming criteria is that, names really don't change
>> much.  For example:  a budget record is a budget record no matter what or
>> how maintained, created or generated.
>>
>
>correct, but first you have to tell folks that an excel spreadsheet shall be
>named in the following manner
>
>budget<dept>_draft_yyyymmdd
>
><bracketed> part would be the dept name
>eg
>
>budgetRM_draft_20080710
>
>otherwise you get Peters.xls
>
>what has to  be remembered to is that MS puts in some restrictions as to
>length of file names include the folders they are filed in. So one does need
>to take into account restrictions that may not exist in the physical world.
>In addition establishing a naming convention for electronic files ensures
>that they can be searched for easily
>
>
>
>-- 
>Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
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