Re: Referring to an unnamed button with three dots

[Ed Wurster <glassnet -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Daniel Ng wrote:

> 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 '...'.
> I believe this is quite common in the Visual Studio Property Sheets
> dialog.

> * Click Browse? (there is no button of such name though)
> * Click the '...' button ? (seems out of convention though)
> * Ask programmer to give it a name (ie. 'Filter...')

> What would you do?

I would use your 2nd choice. Clcik on the <B>ellipsis</B> button.

If you search google for:

access button name expression ellipsis

you'll see why I say that. I do not have anything concrete to back
that up, but I wouldn't invent a new name for it.

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