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> Lisa Wright asked about "From the Edit menu, select Find, then
> choose Files
> or Folders" versus "Select Edit>Find>Files or Folders.
I tend to stay away from ">" or "|" or "/" as menu path delimiters, because
each of these symbols has a grammatical meaning in software.
Instead I use the arrow character in symbol font (Ctrl-q . in FrameMaker,
use the insert symbol in Word), so it looks something like this
File->Open->whatever. Of course the "->" is only a single character looking
like an arrow.
Walden Miller
Manager Technical Documentation
Vidiom Systems
