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Subject:Re: What are these things called? From:Elisabeth Zakes <ezakes -at- PLANVIEW -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:12:32 -0500
On Wednesday, July 28, 1999 10:59 AM, Jillian Mcavoy
[SMTP:JMcavoy -at- ADGIFTS -dot- COM] wrote:
> I am writing a help system for a bespoke piece of software. If you click
on
> a menu item, you get a screen with many file folder tabs for each section.
> What do I call them? MS manual of style has them in their Mac screen
> terminology, but they don't bother to label them.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jillian Flanagan-McAvoy
> Technical Writer
Our software documentation says, "A screen with nine tabs..." and, "click on
the XXX tab."
Elisabeth B. Zakes
PlanView, Inc., Austin, TX
ezakes -at- planview -dot- com http://www.planview.com
