Re: Click X, or click the X button?

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

I use bold for anything the user has to click or select. I find help
formatted that way easier to skim.

When a menu choice or button label is not in intitial caps, I put
double quotes around it to distinguish it from running text.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Chinell, David F (GE EntSol,
Security) <David -dot- Chinell -at- ge -dot- com> wrote:
> Kevin:
>
> Personally, your approach appeals to me. But I think you should also
> consider Sun's approach, which (if I interpret Read Me First! correctly)
> is to give NO special typographic treatment to GUI elements (or their
> identifying labels).
>
> When possible confusion exists between a label and the surrounding text,
> you can set the label in title case (though it may not be set that way
> in the GUI) or you can set it in double quotes.
>
> Click Back, and then check the "Use the security key color" check box.
>
> Click Back, and then check the Use the Security Key Color check box.
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