RE: Display, Displays, or Appears?

["Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>]

As I recall, Minimalist theory suggests that results should be included
only when needed for error mitigation.

Leonard

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Subject: Re: Display, Displays, or Appears?

 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. ...

Jim Shaeffer
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