RE: "Click on" or "click"

["Stuart Rogers" <srogers -at- phoenix-geophysics -dot- com>]

Assuming you're documenting a check box, MS MoS would suggest:

"Ensure that the <b>Display</b> check box is selected or cleared, as
required."

If you have to document how to select or clear a check box, the same
style guide suggests "click" and recommends against "click on" or "click
at," while allowing "click in a window." IOW, "Click the Display check
box to select it or clear it."

HTH,

Stuart Rogers
Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325

mailto:srogers -at- phoenix-geophysics -dot- com

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-----Original Message-----
From: bounce-techwr-l-88731 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-88731 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com] On Behalf Of Alan Alda
Sent: April 1, 2002 1:15 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: "Click on" or "click"

The current guide has a sentence, 
"Ensure that <b>Display</b> is checked, or click on it
to clear it, as required"

However, I am not sure if I am taking the right
approach with this. Any advice will be highly
appreciated.




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