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From: Esthee Erasmus
Sent: 24 June 2006 08:42 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: follow the following
Hi,
I'm writing a user manual at the moment and wonder whether there's a
better way of saying:
To perform the desired action follow the following steps:
It just seems very clumsy. Our style is a bit formal, so saying 'do the
following' or something like that would not be correct. I'm leaning
towards 'perform the steps provided below:' but that seems a but
cumbersome. Any ideas?
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