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Westra, Kayla L. (13718westr -at- kcpbldg01 -dot- bv -dot- com) wrote:
: Do you "click on" your pushbuttons? Do you "press" your pushbuttons?
: "Illa est causa mea, et ad eam haeso."
The first batch of GUI manuals I wrote has 'click on' in them.
However, since I hate mices, I'm moving to preferring 'select the
pushbutton' or 'use the pushbutton', especially since I try to tab my way
through a GUI as much as possible and dont click or press anything <g>.
And for what its worth, I began avoiding the words pushbutton, field, and
their ilk by having the text for the items in a different font. "Enter the
*CUSTOMER ID*. Use *SAVE* to enter your changes and exit the screen" and so
froth and so on. Doing this helped streamline the docs a bit.
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Dan 'Fergus' Roberts
droberts -at- panix -dot- com
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