Follow the following?

Subject: Follow the following?
From: Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 14:50:02 -0400

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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