Need to brush up on your AP style?

Check out Ask the Editor FAQ at AP Stylebook Online. It’s fast and easy to browse through the sampling of frequently asked questions, with examples of AP style used in answers.

The online Associated Press Stylebook is the A-Z guide to usage, spelling and punctuation for writers and editors. Ask the Editor FAQ gives you the straight skinny on these and other burning questions that may be on your mind:

• When describing a time span, should I use a dash to separate the two times (e.g., “2–5 p.m.”) or the word “to”?
• When writing about area, which is correct for numbers less than 10 (“5 acres” or “five acres”)?
• What’s proper: “If money were no object” or “If money was no object”?
• When talking about groups, should I use “that” or “who”?

If you want to dig deeper, check out Ask the Editor questions from the past week. Here are a few questions from the current listing:

• Is it “micro-blog,” “micro blog” or “microblog”?
• Should I write “zero dollars” or “$0”?
• Which is correct? “None of the victims has/have been hurt.”

AP Stylebook Online subscribers, of course, get the real deal: Access to more than 9,000 questions in the Ask the Editor archive.