FWD: Online help wording question

["Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM>]

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Eric

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I'm currently developing an online help program using HTML.  The kicker is
that it will operate on a small, touchscreen display, and outside the help
environment the user has to use his or her finger to select and deselect
check boxes and radio buttons, to drop down menus, and things like that.
The system that I'm documenting was written in Visual Basic so the system
has a typical GUI look and feel to it, except there's no mouse-clicking.

I'm having trouble finding ways to word sentences like the following:

"To select the program characteristics you want to view, touch the choice
you want to select in the View selection area."

(Note to list:  In this instance each program characteristic is preceded by a radio
button that the user needs to touch to activate.)

The sample sentence is wordy to say the least.  How do writers typically
word sentences like this?  Please post to the list...





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