I thought that it would be looking for #of lines and or height over 2.75".

James Cappellucci
Sr. Grant Administrator, Grants & Contracts
Partners Healthcare/Massachusetts General Hospital
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To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] New Error on Grants.gov

More importantly, was this reported to NIH Help Desk?

When you resubmitted, was this after deleting the periods in the
institution name?  Did this work?

Charlie Hathaway wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> Melinda T. Cotten       |       Executive Director
>> PHONE: 713.792.3220   FAX: 713.794.4535
>> OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROGRAMS- Unit 176
>> THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M. D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
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