Reply #19: Thanks! I didn't know there was an Int'l Standard.

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But it does make sense. And leaving out the dashes sounds good too. Maybe someday I'll even clean up my older files.

As for the US being different from most of the rest of the world on this, it reminds me of the resistance to the metric system. I've come to suspect that it really isn't just ordinary people's stubbornness. It could've been done. But having different measurements amounts to a kind of invisible trade barrier. Eg., if people want to sell paper in the US, they have to manufacture it specially. In the rest of the world, they use A4, B5, etc.