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Subject:Re: "You may click" vs. "Click" From:Niall Johnson <niallj -at- CI -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Fri, 5 Aug 1994 09:11:23 +1000
When I have written user manuals (and more than I care to remember!) I
have tended to emphasise that it is the user (you) that does things.
However, I have never (to the best of my knowledge and less than reliable
memory) used "you may". Rather, I might write
1. Enter the option you want and the computer displays the
blah-blah submenu.
2. Use the cursor keys to select .....
It may have been possible to say "You may now select..." but it seems, as
someone else said, 'wishy-washy'.
