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Subject:RE: References to previous company names From:"Halter, Meg" <HalterMC -at- navair -dot- navy -dot- mil> To:"'Linda Sims'" <lsims -at- dset -dot- com>, "'Techwr-L Listerv'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:41:35 -0700
Pehaps I'm revealing my status as a naive newbie... Is there any reason you
can't contact the company and ask what they prefer?
-- Meg Halter
> -----Original Message-----
> We're writing manuals that refer to a company that recently (in
> the last year) changed its name due to its acquisition by another
> company.
>
> Do we use the old name or the new name when referring to them?
>
> Linda Sims
>
