Referring to an unnamed button with three dots

Subject: Referring to an unnamed button with three dots
From: "Daniel Ng" <kjng -at- gprotechnologies -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:24:12 +0800


Am documenting a configuration type dialog box. Provides options to
toggle various settings.
It looks something like this in a dialog:
Category Filter Settings <Text Field> <...> <- button with three
dots.

When you write a help topic, how would describe that '...'.
I believe this is quite common in the Visual Studio Property Sheets
dialog.

* Click Browse? (there is no button of such name though)
* Click the '...' button ? (seems out of convention though)
* Ask programmer to give it a name (ie. 'Filter...')

What would you do?


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Kuan Jern Ng <kjng -at- gprotechnologies -dot- com>
Lead Trainer & Technical Writer, GPRO Technologies Bhd.

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