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From: Keith Parks
Date: Jun 18, 2013 3:42PM

On Jun 18, 2013, at 12:55 PM, David Ashleydale wrote:

> We didn't want to do this:
>
> - Spring 2012 Quarterly Report (Word) <http://www.google.com>;
> - Spring 2012 Quarterly Report - Summary (PDF) <http://www.google.com>;
> - Spring 2012 Quarterly Report - Full (PDF) <http://www.google.com>;
> - Summer 2012 Quarterly Report (Word) <http://www.google.com>;
> - Summer 2012 Quarterly Report - Summary (PDF) <http://www.google.com>;
> - Summer 2012 Quarterly Report - Full (PDF) <http://www.google.com>;

Seems like your "We didn't want to do this" format would actually be fine.

If you have the document titles be the hyperlinked text, and eliminate the "<http://www.whatever.com>;" following it, that doesn't seem so bad to me.

- Spring 2012 Quarterly Report (Word)
- Spring 2012 Quarterly Report - Summary (PDF)
- Spring 2012 Quarterly Report - Full (PDF)

- Summer 2012 Quarterly Report (Word)
- Summer 2012 Quarterly Report - Summary (PDF)
- Summer 2012 Quarterly Report - Full (PDF)

Unless your document titles are in reality a whole lot wordier or in some other way difficult to read, the downside of having some repeated words seems outweighed by the upside of clarity and simplicity.

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Student Affairs Communications Services
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-7444
(619) 594-1046
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