Re: Ctrl+C or CTRL+C

[TechComm Dood <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Look down at your keyboard. ;-)


On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:26:36 -0700, Brian Jennings
<brianjennings -at- cougarmtn -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> I write the documentation for a software company and also play a role in
> reviewing documentation specs and providing the text that we use in the
> interface. We would like to follow Microsoft to get Microsoft
> certification and we also use the Microsoft Manual of Style for
> Technical Publications as a reference. However, even though everything I
> can find shows the standard to be to have the keys in all caps (CTRL+V),
> all my office programs have the shortcut with initial caps and then
> lower case on the menus in the software. If you are using Microsoft
> Outlook, for example, the File menu has shows the Print command shortcut
> as Ctrl+P instead of CTRL+P.
> 
> Does anyone know why they deviate from there standard here? Is this a
> different standard for all the UI text? I tried to find some additional
> examples other than the software menus but couldn't find anything.

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