How to document column names?

["Allen, Emily" <emily -dot- allen -at- teldta -dot- com>]

Hi,

I'm working on some on-line procedural documentation for a GUI and one of
the columns that I need to reference has a name that does not at all
represent what is displayed in that field.  Any suggestions/standards as to
how to document this?

I have chose to use the name that the GUI displays and then included a note
informing the user what the column represents.  Is this going to cause users
anxiety when looking at the documentation?  Am I going to be confusing them?
Again, this is a battle between the Documentation Specialist and the
Trainer.

Thanks for your input.

Emily Allen | Documentation Specialist 
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. 
8401 Greenway Blvd | Suite 230 | Middleton, WI 53562 
T: 608.664.8249
emily -dot- allen -at- teldta -dot- com | www.teldta.com


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