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Expression
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Abbreviations
Accents
Acronyms
Ampersands &
and/or
Articles
At signs @
bi-
Capital letters and cases
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Compound words
Conjunctions
Contractions
eg
etc
Foreign words
Hash signs #
ie
Initialisms
Latin words
Lower case
Parts of speech
per
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Shortened forms
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Addresses
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they
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Mathematical symbols
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Ordinal numbers
per
Percentages %
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Accents
Ampersands &
Angle brackets < >
Apostrophes ’
Asterisks *
At signs @
Brackets ( ) [ ] < > { }
Colons :
Commas ,
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Dashes - – —
Ellipses …
Em dashes —
En dashes –
Exclamation marks !
Forward slashes /
Full stops .
Hash signs #
Hyphens -
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Mathematical symbols
Question marks ?
Quote marks ‘ ’ “ ”
Round brackets ( )
Semicolons ;
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Accessibility in MS Word
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