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Subject:Re: Word to describe an empty check box From:Hannah Drake <hannah -at- formulatrix -dot- com> To:Helen OBoyle <hoboyle -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:13:53 -0500
I also use check and unchecked. But then I also use select -- "To select an
option, check the box"
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Helen OBoyle <hoboyle -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> But, the MSTP talks about select and clear as verbs. I want a noun (or
> would that be an adjective). I don't want to talk about the process of
> selecting or clearing the checkbox. I want to talk about the state of a
> checkbox that was selected or cleared three years ago, as part of
> application configuration, that the user need never look at again.
>
> That's why it's ambiguous to me. I just don't see "is cleared" as the
> state of a checkbox that was never selected let alone cleared by the user
> (ie, the user has not actually physically cleared it... it started out
> unchecked and has remained that way) three years ago and has not been
> touched since.
>
> ??
> --
> * Helen *
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- cytomedix -dot- com
> >wrote:
> WADR, Tony, this is from MSTP:
>
> "Select and clear: Use for check boxes."
>
> Also from MSTP:
>
> "Enable, enabled: Avoid in end-user documentation... In developer
> documentation, it is acceptable to speak of a feature or function as
> enabled."
>
>
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Hannah L. Drake
Lead Technical Documentation Specialist
Formulatrix, Inc.
