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> Right-click the photo beneath where you want to place the pasted
> photos, and select Paste Photo(s).
>
> It just does not sound right to me....
Deborah:
Can you split it into multiple sentences? Something like this, maybe:
"Choose a point at which to insert the photos. In the photo directly
below that insertion point, right-click and select Paste Photo(s)."
One nice thing about doing it that way is that you've smoothly defined a useful new concept -- "insertion point" -- which you can then use in any instructions that follow.
-Andrew
=== Andrew Warren - awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com
=== Synaptics, Inc - Santa Clara, CA
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