Re: MS Manual of Style, disagreements with

["Robin M. Allen" <robin -dot- m -dot- allen -at- WORLDNET -dot- ATT -dot- NET>]

Yvonne DeGraw wrote:
>
> Bev Parks wrote:
> >It is quite possible that not all people want to be Microsoft zombies.
> >There just *may* be a better way out there. Maybe someone at Microsoft
> >made a poor decision. It could happen.
>
> I now use the MS Manual of Style for most things. But I've found several
> places where I disagree. Here's my pet disagreement...
>
> MS says for menu commands, use one of these (File & Open are bold):
>
>   On the File menu, click Open.
>   From the File menu, choose Open.
>
> An alternative I've used and gotten excellent user feedback on is:
>
>   Choose File-->Open.

Yvonne:

I agree with you on your disagreement with MS. I use something similar,
but I use a bar instead of a wingding:

Choose File | Open.
or
Choose Edit | Sort | By Name.

And I explain it as a convention up front.

:Robin Allen
robin -dot- m -dot- allen -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net

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