This includes prepositions, conjunctions and articles. File single unit filing segments before multiple unit filing segments. This includes periods, commas, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, etc. Hyphenated words are considered one unit. Arabic and Roman numbers are filed sequentially before alphabetic characters.
All Arabic numerals precede all Roman numerals.
File under the most commonly used name or title. Cross-reference under other names or titles which might be used in an information request. Often certain organizations correspond with, invoice, or take other actions with respect to specific groups of people or businesses. When this is the case, special filing systems may be developed to aid in the filing and retrieval of records. The important thing to remember is to document decisions that vary from the Simplified Filing Standard Rules.