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My screen shot captions describe what the picture is (your example 1). I
admit that this is sometimes redundant because the caption often mimics
what the window title is at the top of the screen. Sometimes the caption
provides more information, though, if the screen shot is of a sub-window
(dialog box) of another screen (such as "The Order Editing Form of the
Orders Processing dialog box", or something like that). The captions are
used to create a List of Figures for the table of contents area.
> Amy G. Peacock wrote:
> > I have a doc with a number of screen shots in it. As I was editing
> it
> > last night a thought occurred to me.
> >
> > For the captions for screen shots do you prefer to:
> >
> > 1) Describe the picture - what it is. As in, The Order Editing Form.
> > 2) Describe what it does. As in, "Use the Order Editing form to
> change
> > your order."
> > 3) Describe what the user is doing or should do when they see the
> > screen shot. As in. As in, "Viewing the Order Editing Form."
> > 4) No captions at all.
>
