Re: Order of menu commands.

["Mike Starr" <mikestarr-techwr-l -at- writestarr -dot- com>]

It's certainly not something that I feel comfortable saying out loud either. 
However, given that techwr-l (rightly so) does not permit HTML-formatted 
messages, there was no other way I could communicate it in my message. The 
Windows Character Map application refers to it as a "Black Right-Pointing 
Pointer" even though it neither barks nor has a tail. I suppose I could have 
said "a triangle doohickey" though <grin>. For the sake of clarity, see 
http://www.writestarr.com/Doohickey.gif

Mike
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From: "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 12:23 PM
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Subject: RE: Order of menu commands.

> 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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> Senior Technical Writer
> Polycom, Inc.
> richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
> 303-223-5111
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> rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
> 303-777-0436 

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