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Subject:Re: Invoke or Use From:Sharon Toll <SHARONT -at- LEONARDO -dot- LMT -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 14 Nov 1994 16:42:50 CST6CDT
Ellen Snell asks:
>What do other tech writers out there say? The context of the verb is this:
>"when you invoke the software utility"
>or
>"when you use the software utility"
I don't think use is correct, but I don't like the word invoke. I would say:
"when you start the software utility..."
Depends on your reader of course, but I prefer to simplify the language,
which is why I don't like the term invoke.
