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RE: term for "numbers and letters but not punctuation or special symbols"
Subject:RE: term for "numbers and letters but not punctuation or special symbols" From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:"'TECHWR-L'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:16:05 -0400
Consumers know what "characters" are by now, I think, particularly if they
use computers.
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> In our user documentation we want to say something like "the more
> letters you enter, the more specific your search results will be".
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> Our technical reviewers changed this to "characters", which is not
> suitable for the audience (it's a consumer product). We
> originally had
> "the more you enter, the better your search results will be" to which
> the technical reviewers wanted to add "letters".
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