FW: Referring to an unnamed button with three dots

Subject: FW: Referring to an unnamed button with three dots
From: "Dannette Bennett" <dbennett -at- foundationsoft -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:13:48 -0400


We have several of these. My convention is to put button names in square brackets anyway, so I will say something like:

Click the browse button ([...]) to select a file.

BTW, I think if you have a really low-level audience, you could be very explicit: Click the button with three dots. If you have a high-level audience, you can probably assume that they know that browse is three dots.

-----Original Message-----
Am documenting a configuration type dialog box. Provides options to
toggle various settings.
It looks something like this in a dialog:
Category Filter Settings <Text Field> <...> <- button with three
dots.

When you write a help topic, how would describe that '...'.
<snip>
What would you do?

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