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Subject:RE: Order of menu commands. From:"Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 7 Dec 2007 11:23:46 -0700
Mike Starr wrote:
> "Choose the *Admin* module >>*Scheduling*>>*Room Maintenance*
> menu item."
>
> In addition, I have an autocorrect that changes the ">>" to a
> single right-pointing triangular arrow symbol and
> automatically formats the text using my Emphasis character style.
>
> I prefer to write these sorts of things in a way that I'd
> feel comfortable actually saying out loud and believe
> (without having actually having done any research to validate
> my belief) that readers will better understand what I write
> if it's written that way.
Hmm. I don't think I'd feel comfortable saying right-pointing triangular
arrow symbols out loud.
;-)
Richard
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303-223-5111
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