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Melanie,
I like your way at least as well, if not better, than my usual way of
handling it.
1. Click the Open button to access the File Open dialog box.
Note: You can also access the File Open dialog box by choosing File, then
Open, or by pressing Ctrl+F.
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Fielek
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 1:22 PM
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Subject: Variations on a task
At 09:37 AM 04/12/2000 -0700, kanerb -at- concentric -dot- net wrote:
>The Help does contain one of my pet peeves -- the phrase "do one of the
>following:" Yuck.
So, how do y'all deal with documenting several different ways of
accomplishing the same task?
This simple example shows what I've been doing so far:
1. Open a file using one of these methods:
o From the File menu, select Open.
o On the toolbar, click the Open button (pic of button).
2-n. Next step(s) follow.
I'm not really pleased with this construction, but it's all I've thought of
so far. More importantly, my cutomers haven't complained -- they're happy
that I document all possible ways of doing something. (This being the
reason I haven't spent a lot of time trying to fix it!)
Any other "methods" out there?
-- Melanie
Melanie Fielek, Technical Writer/Editor, mfielek -at- inri -dot- com
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