Re: Order of menu commands.

["Mike Starr" <mikestarr-techwr-l -at- writestarr -dot- com>]

You're right that we speak the command as if there were commas there. I use 
the symbol as a representation of the hierarchical structure of the menus 
involved... a visual cue to the reader.

Mike
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From: "Chinell, David F (GE Indust, Security)" <David -dot- Chinell -at- GE -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 3:26 PM
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Subject: RE: Order of menu commands.

> I've been thinking about this issue for several years now. I think you'd
> verbalize the command with pauses where we print our *fun* arrows and
> triangles and symbols. Wheee!
>
> But I think that means we should really just be using commas. That's
> what we'd use to verbalize it.
>
> Click Admin, Scheduling, Room Maintenance.
>
> Bear 

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