Follow the following?

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Esthee Erasmus wondered: <<I'm writing a user manual at the moment and 
wonder whether there's a better way of saying: To perform the desired 
action follow the following steps: It just seems very clumsy. Our style 
is a bit formal, so saying 'do the following' or something like that 
would not be correct.  I'm leaning towards 'perform the steps provided 
below:' but that seems a but cumbersome.  Any ideas?>>

"When in doubt, cut it out." <g> Here's how I've always done this:

To solve the problem:
1. Do something.
2. Do something else.
3. Do yet another something.

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(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)
www.geoff-hart.com
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