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Everyone has there own preferences, and I truly think that they are just
preferences. There is no 'study' that I am aware of that shows an advantage
to one way over the other.
For what it is worth, my personal preference is gerunds for chapter,
procedure and section headings, and task oriented index entries, imperatives
for procedure steps.
Susan Brown [ mailto:sbrown -at- texar -dot- com ]
Senior Documentation Specialist
Texar Corporation
1101 Prince of Wales Drive, Suite 135
Ottawa, Ontario K2C 3W7
613 274 2248
Fax: 613 274 2204
"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what
no one else has thought."
-Albert Szent-Gyorgi
