Re: Display, Displays, or Appears?

["Milan Davidovic" <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> wrote:
> If the
> software fails to behave properly, describing what they should be
> seeing -- but are not seeing -- is frustrating at best, and
> intimidating or infuriating at worst.

So...

1. Click A.
2. Select C.

If C is unavailable to be selected, then the reader knows something is
wrong; we don't need to say "The B dialog box appears" in Step 1.
Correct?

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Milan Davidovic
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