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Subject:Re: Click only or Only click From:"Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher -at- EXPERSOFT -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:45:48 -0700
At 12:29 PM 8/18/99 -0500, Miller Rob wrote:
>Here's a variation on the perennial question about clicking ...
>
>Should we write:
>
>"Click only the button in the dialog box ... "
>
>or
>
>"Only click the button in the dialog box ... "
Depends. ;-) I'd read the first version as a warning to click *only*
the button and keep my itchy mouse finger away from all the other
controls. The second version says that "all ya gotta do" is click the
button. What is it, specifically, that you're trying to say???
