Is there a proper way of writing .00 on a check?

[DesertDog]

*Originally posted by Davebear *
**I agree. If it’s honored, it’s fine. Personally, I just write the dollar amount and draw a line through the excess space, when there are no cents, involved. Like this; “Thirty-five ---------- Dollars”.
I’ve been told it’s bad to leave the area between the last dollar word and the pre-printed word Dollars blank. I guess the idea is that someone could fill in the word “thousand”, and then cash it. The line prevents this. **

Not with my account. Even if the written part was ‘One’ it’d still bounce with a bogus ‘Thousand’ tacked onto it. Hell, even a bogus ‘Hundred’ wouldn’t fly some of the time.

I put the squiggly line anyway, though.

DD

[mhendo]

I just wrote a (thankfully small) check to the IRS, and while they say nothing about how the amount should be written out in words, they are very particular as to how the amount should be written in numerals:

To help us process your payment, enter the amount on the right side of the check like this: $XXX.XX. Do not use dashes or lines (for example, do not enter “$XXX–” or “$XXX XX/100”

I’m not why i would want to help them process my payment, but i followed their instructions anyway.

[Smeghead]

I knew a guy once who would write “…and not a penny more!”

I admired that.

[twickster]

“…and not a penny more!”

I like that. I may switch.

[RickJay]

I use xx/100. Mrs. RickJay writes “Thirty-Five Dollars Even.” Both seem to go through every time. It’s funny you asked this, though, because just a few weeks ago I was looking at a cheque Mrs. RickJay wrote and wondering if I’d been doing it wrong all this time.

[Sapphire_Wolf]

I write it with 00/100, but since I put slashes through my zeroes (to indicate zeroes rather than o’s), I generally don’t worry.

[cleops]

*Originally posted by Gunslinger *
**I had seven of the same post once, in various stages of completeness; I have no idea how I managed to do it.
And to answer the question, I write “00/100” or “no/100”. **

Sorry about the hijack, folks, but I should, to be polite, respond to Gunslinger, and say, '" Wow!" Funny thing, as soon as I left this forum and surfed (is that word still in style?) over to another, I encountered a quintuple post. Go figure.

I still just write the nymber of dollars only. No problems.

[hermann]

I think that I need to change my ways. I would write out “Three hundred-seventy dollars and eighty nine cents”. Now, my handwriting is small, but sometimes still not small enough.