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Subject:Re: Question: When to use Select or Choose? From:Bill Burns <BillDB -at- ILE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:20:04 -0600
Here's what I have verbatim from the MS MoS (1995), pg 51:
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- Click: Use for commands, command buttons, option buttons, and options in a
list, gallery, or palette.
- Select and clear: Use for check boxes.
- Type or select: Use to refer to an item (as in a list box) that the user
can either type or select in the accompanying text box. You can use enter
instead if there's no possibility of confusion.
- Choose and select: Use these terms only when documenting generic
procedures, not mouse procedures. Use choose for commands and select for
options.
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Bill Burns
Senior Technical Writer/Technology Consultant
ILE Communications
billdb -at- ile -dot- com
