RE: a question about verb tense/is or was?

["DeGuzman, Kathi" <Kathi -dot- Deguzman -at- Nextel -dot- com>]

I totally agree with Christine.
I also think telling the user that a window will open or a message will
display, etc.
is redundant. It makes a manual wordier than it needs to be. Clear and
concise, isn't that what we want to be doing?

Fourth day on the new job, gotta go.

Kathi Jan DeGuzman
Technical Editor
Customer Tools
kathi -dot- deguzman -at- Nextel -dot- com
"Dance like no one is watching, 
Love like you'll never be hurt, 
Sing like no one is listening, 
Live like it's heaven on earth.
 ~ William Purkey  ~


-----Original Message-----
From: Christine -dot- Anameier -at- seagate -dot- com

... I would question whether we
need to tell users the ABC window will open. If they're following the
procedure, they'll see it happen. Seems redundant to tell them, ...

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