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Subject:Re: Display, Displays, or Appears? From:jlshaeffer -at- aol -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:09:13 -0400
I am loathe to quibble with anything that Geoff says, but when he says:
If the
software fails to behave properly, describing what they should be
seeing -- but are not seeing -- is frustrating at best, and
intimidating or infuriating at worst.
I wonder, is it not risking more trouble if the software does not behave as expected, but the user blithely tries to perform the remaining steps in the procedure?
As for the original question, I would frequently cop out by writing something like:
To framject the ubi:
1. Click the Ubi button to access the Ubi Dialog box.
2. On the Ubi Dialog box ...
3. ...
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