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Subject:RE: Plus and minus sign buttons From:"Mike Bradley" <mbradley -at- techpubs -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:11:24 -0700
The 1995 MS Style Guide uses PLUS SIGN or PLUS SIGN (+).
= Mike Bradley
Tech Pubs
> Is anyone aware of a convention for referring to such buttons
> in text? I need an end-user term, not developer-speak. It
> seems cumbersome to write "click the plus or minus buttons
> ...." And I can't show a screen shot wherever I reference
> such a button, either, or I'll have several screen caps per page.
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