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Subject:A question of Grammar From:"Hill, Chris" <EDSCH -at- AIRTOURS -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:53:16 +0100
I'm in the process of authoring What's This Help for an application.
One field, labelled Address, is used to capture address details. In
terms of the Help text, which is appropriate,
'Type the Address of the supplier into this box'
or
'Type the Address for the supplier into this box'.