>>>>Depends whether you are referring to, say data details ON the form, or details OF the form, such as its colour, size, controls, etc.
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>>>its colour, size, controls, etc.
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>>>That one troubles me, even in Dutch: etc.
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>>>Shouldn't there be two dots?!
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>>I assume you're referring to et cetera. You mean when it's at the end of a sentence? Yes that's always troubled me. This is got round if you follow modern trends in punctuation. A few years ago I taught IT in a secretarial school, where they conformed to the latest Pitmans standards/conventions. In these, etc, eg, ie, Inc, Re (et al) do not have the abbreviation full-stops), so the above Q is solved. :-)
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>Hmm, there's not yet such a convention in Dutch, as to my knowledge. I try to prevent trouble by reconstructing the sentence or by not abbreviating there.

But haven't you got like the dutch equiv. of the german "usw" (und so weiser) for etc?