I'm reluctant to say this...but I don't believe it.  Maybe the NIH has
started enforcing this now...because I know we have submitted narratives
that had 4-5 sentences.  BUT...wouldn't this mean that a computer is
READING the narrative PDF???  Does Commons work that way?

Could you tell us the exact text of the error?

Charlie

> Thus far, we have submitted 63 Challenge Grant applications to NIH.  Just
> wanted to let everyone know about a new error that we have discovered.
> For the 2-3 sentence Project Narrative, if you have any initials with
> periods in the 3 sentences, you will get an error requiring resubmission.
> The periods are counted and even though we only had 3 sentences, the PI
> had referenced the institutional name that included 2 initials/periods.
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