Re: MS Manual of Style, disagreements with

Subject: Re: MS Manual of Style, disagreements with
From: "Mitman, Rikki" <Rikki -dot- Mitman -at- COMPAQ -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 11:27:14 -0500

Yvonne DeGraw wrote:

[snip]
>
>An alternative I've used and gotten excellent user feedback on is:
>
> Choose File-->Open.
>
>(File-->Open is bold and --> is a Wingding character or an image.)
>
>In the preface and on first use (maybe first use in each chapter depending
>on the manual structure), I explain this style.
>
>Hear, hear! When I was manager of a software doc group, we used the same
>convention with great results. It is indeed intuitive. And it's brief.
>
>We even created a keyboard macro (Alt-A) for the arrow.
>
>Rikki Mitman -- speaking strictly for myself
>rikki -dot- mitman -at- compaq -dot- com

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