For a composition title, would you cap the B in this: Step-by-Step Guide 
Thank you!

Do you retain the serial comma here? Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act 

Hope all is well. What's AP's style for acronyms like the CARE Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security)? Is it CARE Act, CARE act, Care Act, Care act or some other rendition?

Is it screen-share or screen share--for both noun and verb? thanks

Thanks for all the COVID-19 information! I've been using "quarantine" to mean people staying at home, though I know that's not precisely what it mean. "Self-isolation" is probably more accurate, but "quarantine" is becoming popular. Does AP have a stance on this newly developing usage? 

You say panic-buying should be hyphenated. That applies to verbs as well as nouns?

What's the best way to refer to someone who sews? We have so many non-professional people who are sewing masks and such right now. Sewer seems to be what the dictionaries go with, but we were wondering if there was something better out there. 

Hello! Would you hyphenate "in season" in this case: Controlling diseases in season. (I cannot recast.) Thank you! 

When writing a bio, in the first reference you use the whole name. In the second reference, should you use the first name or last name only?
Example: Sally Martin is a software developer for ABC Co. [Is it Sally or Martin] has extensive experience in programming and coding. 

Which is correct when communicating with customers - overbromination, over-bromination or over bromination.  Same question for overchlorination, over-chlorination or over chlorination. Yes, AP Stylebook states no hyphen, one word in both cases. However, I cannot find any entries in the dictionary, and Google reveals most cases these are two words. Which would be a consistent, professional use when communicating to customers, particularly in giving instructions?

Is it noncompliance or non-compliance?

Is the term rescue acceptable in this sentence or should it be rescued?
We both love dogs and have a rescue Great Pyrenees.
Thanks!

I'm editing a business feature story for a community newspaper. What do you do with businesses that insistent on nonstandard capitalization in their company names? Can we call it Bedaisy Studio or do we need to write it as bedaisY sTudio? Text from the business: "the bedaisY sTudio sPring marKeT MaY 9 & 10 "

Hi AP. Wisconsin real estate licensees use a specific state-approved residential offer to purchase contract in real estate transactions. That contract includes a specific section titled “INSPECTION CONTINGENCY” in all caps on the form. When communications, articles, etc., targeted to real estate licensees mention this specific contingency, should those communications refer to this as the Inspection Contingency, the inspection contingency, or some other preferred style? Similarly, the contract also includes a “Notice of Defects.” Would communications about the form refer to that as a Notice of Defects or notice of defects? I am wondering if AP has any preference for capitalization and style consistency in these scenarios. Thank you!

Greetings, has the time come to enable a single, simple term that says "health care professionals who provide treatment for patients" in a less cumbersome way? Are we (can we be) at a point now where "clinicians" is understood to mean not only doctors, but also nurses and nurse practitioners, techs, respiratory therapists, physician assistants, dentists, social workers... even medical assistants? Or maybe (though less brief) "doctors, nurses, and medical staff" or "doctors, nurses, and other providers"? This is in part for brevity and in part in recognition of current culture, which seems to have a growing understanding that it's not just the doctors and nurses who are on the proverbial front lines.

Hello! Two Ask the Editor entries offer conflicting results. Hoping you can clarify which is correct:

QUESTION from Trenton, N.J. on March 24, 2015

The past five years mark a milestone or The past five years marks a milestone ...?

The U.S. Postal Service refers to the nine-digit ZIP code as "ZIP+4"; What does AP style say?

Thank you.

I'm correcting menu capitalization in an article I'm editing. I figured Cheese Hugger, Angry Rooster, Meat Hugger (pizzas) should be capitalized as fanciful menu items and that o-reo-speedwagon should be O-REO-Speedwagon for that reason plus Oreo and REO Speedwagon being proper nouns. BUT the restaurant lowercases everything. I'm planning to do them capitalized and treat the restaurants' non-capitalization as a quirk (I mean, it's not poetry), but I would like to know what you think. Thank you.

Would you hyphenate "upper-body workout" and "lower-body workout"

When we are asking questions of the public or a certain population (all business owners/operators in a city), is it called a questionnaire unless it is a scientifically accurate survey? Difference between a survey and a questionnaire I guess is more what I'm asking. Thank you!

Do you approve of the following hyphenation: COVID-19-related

For a patient who has tested positive for COVID-19, can we use the adjectival form COVID-positive, as in: 
 

Would you need two hyphens in a sentence like this: "ABC company uses 100% American-made and -sourced materials"?

Which is correct, given the following context: The customer cards already exist, and we are announcing new customer card options:

Because of this tax break, we are happy to announce exciting, new customer card options to help you save more.

Because of this tax break, we are happy to announce exciting new customer card options to help you save more.

I thought of customer card options as a compound noun modified by exciting and new. Someone else questioned whether the comma should be there, thinking of new customer card options as being modified by exciting. Your thoughts?