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Subject:Re: MS Manual of Style, disagreements with From:Tracy Boyington <tboyi -at- OKVOTECH -dot- ORG> Date:Mon, 9 Jun 1997 13:01:18 +0000
> One of our other writers prefers the option first (for example,
> "Select Open from the File menu") which I always have to unpack into the
> order I prefer.
Me too! The backward "select this but oh wait, open this first"
really bugs me. I want my steps in order.
Tracy
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