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Subject:Re: Have you seen this GUI element? From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net> To:"Peterson Karen" <Peterson_Karen -at- prc -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:36:20 -0500
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>Has anyone ever seen this ellipsis button? I want to know if our results of
>clicking the ellipsis is the same as current functionality.
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>Thanks very much,
>Karen
Yes, the company I work for uses ellipses on menu items and buttons. We take
care, however, to drop the ellipses in our documentation. I'd have to check
if it's our house style only or part of Microsoft's Manual of Style, to
which we generally conform.
I was told that the ellipsis means "there's another dialog box or menu or
some other thing coming when you click this button".
