RE: Toggle on/off or Turns on and off

["Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com>]

Hi Sean,

It's a GUI thing. Why not label the button "Feature On/Off"?

For example, if the button turns on and off Clippy the Intensely Annoying
Word Assistant, label it "Clippy On/Off".

Alternatively, the button could be made into a check box (in the example
above, it would be labeled "Show Clippy"). Users are generally very familiar
with check boxes.

Dan Goldstein
(Always happy to answer the question you didn't ask)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: T. Word Smith 
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 11:06 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Toggle on/off or Turns on and off
> 
> My first step is to make them all the same. Then, my
> second step is to decide and globally fix them all.
> For a technical audience that's not programmers, for
> enabling/disabling/turning on/off/toggling on/off
> features, which would you prefer:
> 
> Button z turns on and off feature a.
> 
> Button z toggles on/off feature a.
> 
> Button z enables/disables feature a.
> 
> Or, preferez-vous some autre approach?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sean

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