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Subject:RE: Use Words or pictures? From:"Gayla Bassham" <gbassham -at- cypress-software -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 2 Nov 2004 14:12:10 -0500
>Do most of you put a picture of the button into the on-line and say,
for
>example: "To drop a field onto the form, click (picture of the
button)."
>Or, do you say, for example, "To drop a field onto the form, click the
>Drop button?"
I come up with a name for the button (if it doesn't already have a
commonly-used name) and reference it that way. The first time I refer to
the button I put its picture in the margin or possibly right above the
referring sentence.
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