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Subject:RE: Chicken or the Egg From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 18 May 2004 15:01:07 -0400
I would write: "In the YYY field, select XXX."
Example: "In the Poultry field, select Chicken."
Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Posada [mailto:JPosada -at- isogon -dot- com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 3:00 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Chicken or the Egg
>
> Where "XXX" is a type of action and is a choice on a dropdown list and
> "YYY" is the label of the dropdown list:
>
> Select "XXX" from the "YYY" list of available actions.
>
> Or
>
> From the "YYY" list of available actions, select "XXX".
>
> I'd like your opinions on this please?
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