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Subject:Re: Question: When to use Select or Choose? From:Pierre Roberge <PRoberge -at- FAMICTECH -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:47:41 -0400
For me the word Choose means that a person is faced with several
posibilities and must decide which one is the most appropriate.
The word Select comes in after a choice has been made and represents
more an action to be taken after the thought process.
When I describe a fixed procedure (leaving the user no choice), I always
use the word Select and when the procedure I am describing involves a
choice to be made by the user I use the word Choose.
For example:
Choose your default printer....
Select the HPXXXX printer
