Replace the word with a numeral
Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
A number of one hundred or more is written as a figure in a brief’s text — “123 pages”, not “one hundred twenty-three pages” — unless it opens the sentence.1
- Wrong
- one hundred twenty-three pages
- Right
- 123 pages
- 1B6 Abbreviations, Numerals, and Symbols. Tables: R. 6.2(a) Numerals.
- 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.