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Subject:Re: <pPopulate as a verb for "fill in" From:Win Day <win -dot- day -at- FREENET -dot- TORONTO -dot- ON -dot- CA> Date:Fri, 13 Jan 1995 20:43:58 -0500
Sorry, I've lost the original. But what about "filled" or "pre-filled"?
On Fri, 13 Jan 1995, Marv Cochrane wrote:
> What about the word "prepopulate" (or would it be "pre-populate")?
> We have user entry forms that sometimes display values in some fields
> when the user accesses the form, for example. There are also data
> tables that contain data before the user accesses them. Some of our
> reviewers like to say that these items are prepopulated.
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