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Subject:RE: Return or Enter for US users consensus From:David Farbey <David -dot- Farbey -at- lazysoft -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 28 May 2002 15:06:04 +0100
Do US keyboards all show the word Enter on the large return/enter key?
A quick survey of the keyboards in our office (located 20 miles west of
London UK) reveals that the large return/enter key next to the alphabetic
keys has only a right-angled arrow, and the small return/enter key next to
the numeric keypad is marked "Enter". This is true on a variety of Gateway,
Dell, and IBM PC keyboards, and on a Microsft Natural keyboard.
The keyboard on our one i-Mac has nothing writtten on either return/enter
key, and our one Sun Solaris workstation does actually have "Return" on the
large return/enter key.
However, in the user guides I write I do ask users to "press Enter", and
they all seem to know what I mean :-)
David Farbey mailto:david -dot- farbey -at- lazysoft -dot- com
Technical Writer
Lazy Software Ltd., UK http://www.lazysoft.com
Phone: 01628-642314
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Margulis [mailto:margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net]
Sent: 28 May 2002 14:31
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Return or Enter for US users consensus
Don't leave us in suspense, Michelle. Do you have mostly Macintosh keyboards
in your office? Are your keyboards mostly quite elderly? Or is the UK PC
keyboard different in this regard from the US PC keyboard?
"Deeprose, Michelle - HDS" wrote:
>
>I
>have done a quick straw poll of the keyboards in the office and note that
>none of the keyboards in use here have 'Enter' on the main carriage return
>button but only on the Number Pad Enter button.
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