RE: "Appears" vs. "will appear"

["Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>]

<<One vote for "Appears" sans the "will". I agree that "will appears"
seems unclear on the timing and I'm always a fan of fewer words.

On a slight tangent, I would *love* to hear an argument for displays
over appears that doesn't involve knocking appears for being
"magical". I've never heard a user of my documentation make that
claim, only another Tech Writer. It would be interesting to track down
where the "magical appears" claim first surfaced.>>

Actually, I use something like the following:

Click button Y. This will open window Z.

Although I can see the economies in saying:

Click button Y. Window Z opens.

I guess I could go either way.

-- Craig



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