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Sorry, I gotta ask this. What don't you like about "search criteria"?
Jim Cort
Technical Writer
Totaltel
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The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
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Dasheill Hammett
-----Original Message-----
From: Kari K. Gulbrandsen Andres [SMTP:kandres -at- UDel -dot- Edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 2:37 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: word choice
I do not like using the term 'search criteria' in the following
sentence. Can anybody offer me any suggestions?
"Use the compound name in conjunction with a local operator (Not,
Contains/Exactly) to establish search criteria. The entries that
are
retrieved must match your search criteria. "
