Plus and minus sign buttons

Subject: Plus and minus sign buttons
From: "Kubrin, Andy" <AKubrin -at- FEICO -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:23:46 -0600


Whirlers,

I'm documenting an application that uses buttons labeled with plus and
minus signs to step through a range of values--an index, say, or a range
of voltage settings.

Is anyone aware of a convention for referring to such buttons in text? I
need an end-user term, not developer-speak. It seems cumbersome to write
"click the plus or minus buttons ...." And I can't show a screen shot
wherever I reference such a button, either, or I'll have several screen
caps per page.

As a bonus question, does anyone know if it is standard Windows UI design
practice to use these buttons? If there's a better alternative, I'd like
to point it out to our developers.

Please copy me with your response, as I'm on digest.

Thanks.

Andy

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Andy Kubrin
Senior Technical Writer
FEI Company
503-640-7694
akubrin -at- feico -dot- com



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