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Ned Bedinger wrote:
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> Anyway, I can execute the default action for a menu item or link or
> checkbox using the keyboard, so why is the vocabulary all about the
> mouse? If I have to say 'click' then why not be clearer and say 'left
> click'?
>
> So in the 21st century, I trust the audience to figure out what I mean
> when I write it simply:
>
> 1. Edit > Find > Replace > All
>
> So far, I haven't ever been taken to task by unhappily lost readers who
> don't know what it means unless it says "click" somewhere.
>
Readers can indeed probably figure out what you
mean but your solution seems to me to be the
equivalent of writing a sentence of all nouns
without any verbs. I think that adding a simple
imperative verb makes the instruction clearer
and the step would be more quickly read and
comprehended.
-- Janice
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