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Subject:RE: What is the best term to use? From:"Jessica Weissman" <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com> To:"Janice Gelb" <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM>, "Zen C" <zenizenc -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:39:46 -0400
In one system we took the approach of treating the system chunk as
though it had a proper name, and wrote things like:
Select Payments to open Payments.
(with the first "Payments" in our GUI item font)
Or
Payments handles payments to suppliers, invoice aging, and truffle
pounding.
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