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Subject:Re: submenu, sub-menu, or sub menu? From:Averil Strauss <averil -at- LEGENDCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 22 May 1996 18:25:04 -0400
>I am documenting about using the menus in my PC based software. Sometimes
>you click on a menu item and it opens a sub menu (submenu, sub-menu) that
>the user may select from. I tend to use Microsoft as my guideline for
>writing these types of terms, but haven't been able to track this one down.
Having been blasted by programmers for this, I have to ask, is this a
Windows app? If so, almost certainly all are inappropriate.
When doing DOS, I used "submenu", sub being a normal prefix.
Averil
Legend Communications, Inc.
Developers of PostScript Software
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