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Subject:Re: Bold, Italics, etc. From:"Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Mon, 3 Nov 1997 07:22:57 -0700
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Prince [SMTP:prince1 -at- WEBTV -dot- NET]
>Now, I do have a question about dialog boxes. Do you guys write the
>name of a dialog box in bold or italics? Or do you simply write it in
>plain text? I prefer to write them in bold, BUT...sometimes when you
>have other words in bold (actions) and you write the dialog boxes in
>bold, in the same sentence, it's seems a bit too much.
>
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>I use italics for dialog box titles. Our dialog boxes usually contain several
>tabs. I put the tab names in bold.
>
>Bev Parks
>parksb -at- emh1 -dot- hqisec -dot- army -dot- mil
>http://www.bayside.net/users/cbsites/techwr-l/
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