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Subject:Re: Need a word From:Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:45:15 +1100
tech -dot- writer1 -at- verizon -dot- net wrote:
> To accomplish a particular task, four sets of steps have to be done. What do you call these four things?
>
> Currently they are being called "steps," but that isn't quite right as they each contain steps themselves.
>
> Something like part or section, but these and other thesaurus offerings aren't clicking. Any ideas?
>
You could have an overall task, and then the sets
could be procedures.
When you framble a glypseik, you need to perform the following
procedures:
1. Blibps the rtpcil.
2. Xifbq the qerui.
3. Vzag the lreui.
4. Mqpouy the hpzrel.
To Blibps the Rtpcil
1.
2.
3.
To Xifbq the Qerui
[etc.]
-- Janice
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