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You might want to use the MS Manual of Style guidelines, and change the
sentence to:
"On the ABC menu, click the desired function."
or
"On the ABC menu, choose the desired function."
Melissa Brown
Claritas
mebrown -at- claritas -dot- com
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Julie Hansen wrote:
In much of our documentation the sentence (or one similar) appears:
Select the ABC Menu function you want.
It was:
Select the ABC Menu function you desire.
Due to the connotations of desire we revised as shown.
Is there a better way to say this? The words can be totally rearranged
and/or replaced
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUGGESTIONS.
Julie
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