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RE: State Abbreviations in Dropdown - Permitted?

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Dec 2, 2005 5:00AM

Unless you're coming up with your own state abbreviations, you're safe.
Use the abbreviations - they are well known enough.

The question I'd think about is what order to put the state
abbreviations. I see them in order by state name alphabetically as well
as by state abbreviation alphabetically. I'm not sure which is best, I
don't mind that Massachusetts is often first in the list of M's (MA)
even though Maryland (MD) and Maine (ME) are first alphabetically.

AWK


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Hello,



I have a situation where the US postal code state abbreviations
(e.g. AK, NJ, SC, etc.) are to appear in a dropdown menu. Neither the
acronym tag not the abbreviation tag can be used within a pick list.



Has anyone ever had this situation? Can this be done or must the
names be written out in full? Would the abbreviations be understandable
anyway? Any work-arounds you can think of?



Thanks

Jim



Ps - I searched the archive but didn't see anything regarding
this specific situation.