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On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, <Iain Harrison <iharrison -at- SCT -dot- CO -dot- UK> said:
>
>Select the appropriate ABC menu function
>or
>Select the relevant ABC menu function
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, <Melissa_Brown/Claritas -at- CLARITAS -dot- COM> said:
>
>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
<soapbox mode on>
Why would you select an option you don't want? I dislike
this kind of question-begging language! Enter a valid code,
choose an appropriate option, type the correct answer!
If the converse is absurd, you don't need the qualifier.
Let's just skip straight to
Choose an ABC menu function.
and let the users figure out which one they want.
<soapbox mode off>
Thank you.
-- Mona
mona -dot- albano -at- promis -dot- com
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