Re: submenus

Subject: Re: submenus
From: JamesPVW <jamespvw -at- AOL -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 13:31:59 -0400

In article <Pine -dot- GSO -dot- 3 -dot- 95 -dot- 970909095512 -dot- 604B-100000 -at- user1 -dot- ptd -dot- net>, WS
Mendler <wmendler -at- ptdprolog -dot- net> writes:

>What's the standard for describing hierarchical menu commands? We're
>having an ongoing discussion here about this -- verbose descriptions seem
>unwieldy, and I've seen a couple of different typographical conventions...

The Microsoft Manual of Style sez...

In Windows 95, you open a submenu by *pointing* to the menu name.

"On the File menu, point to Open, and then choose Project."

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