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Subject:Re: Click X, or click the X button? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:"Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com> Date:Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:08:51 -0700
No, I figure bold is enough. I meant to say, when a menu choice or
button is not bold, and not in initial caps ...
Using a special tag is a good idea.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Combs, Richard
<richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com> wrote:
> Do you do that _in addition_ to making them bold (or am I
> misunderstanding what's bold)?
>
> Robert Lauriston wrote:
>> When a menu choice or button label is not in intitial caps, I put
>> double quotes around it to distinguish it from running text.
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