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Subject:Re: What do you call the Three Dots? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 16 Oct 2017 11:30:39 -0700
If the only thing on the button was ... and it did not have a tooltip,
I would write "click <b>...</b>."
I do that regularly with â buttons. It was annoying when the tool I
was using couldn't handle that character.
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