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Subject:Re: Online Help "Click" vs. "Press" From:"Wilcox, John (WWC, Contractor)" <wilcoxj -at- WDNI -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:13:00 -0800
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From: Barb Ostapina
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The vendor has told us that it's more appropriate to
say "Press Search" rather than "Click Search" (referring to a button on
the
screen) for HTML help. Do you agree?
>>> I think you should tell him to go back to his typewriter and leave
you alone. I hate it when people design pages with "Press" this or
that. I don't like having to wipe the fingerprints off my screen!
(I use "click" or "double click" ...
>>> Um, that should be hyphenated. :o)
Regards,
John Wilcox, Documentation Specialist
Timberlands Information Services, Application Delivery Group
Weyerhaeuser, WWC 2E2, Box 2999
Tacoma, WA 98477-2999 USA
253-924-7972 mailto:wilcoxj -at- wdni -dot- com
(I don't speak for Weyerhaeuser, and they return the favor.)
