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Personally, I would underline the F. It will depend on the skillset of your
users, but I find they respond visibly better to cues that look as similar
as possible to the "real thing" in the documentation.
Lisa Comeau
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-----Original Message-----
From: Deborah Cooper [mailto:dcooper -at- EDISPATCH -dot- COM]
Sent: Monday, January 18, 1999 12:29 PM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Hotkeys
Hi, gang,
I just wanted to ask: when documentating software applications,
and you write something like:
From the File menu, choose Save to...
If, in your application, the File menu has a hotkey associated with
it (as in ALT+F to open the File menu), in your documentation would
you underline the F in the word File? or just write the word File, as
usual?
