RE: How to explain clicking on a submenu

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Rob Hudson wrote: 
 
> If you are clicking the Reports menu of the Contacts menu of the
> Administrator menu of the Home menu, do you say:
> 
> 1) Choose Reports from the Contacts Menu of the Administrator menu of
> the Home menu, or
> 2) Choose Home>Administrator>Contacts>Reports?
> 
> Or is there a better alternative?

Option (1) is bad because it puts the first thing I need to find at the
end of the sentence. 

I use (2), but with spaces on either side of the angle brackets (to
allow the line to wrap if necessary). And depending on application,
audience, etc., I use "select" or "go to."

For three or fewer levels (4 becomes awkward), another good option is: 

"On the Home menu, point to Administrator, and then select Reports." 

Notice the "and then." ;-)

Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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