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In writing a manual, a colleague suggested using the word "unsaved" for
talking about files that have not been saved. Is unsaved really a word. It
seems a little funny to me. I looked it up, and the word is for being
"saved" as in Christianity.
I had the following:
CopyWriter will prompt the user to save any edited files that have not been
saved before the program closes.
She suggested:
CopyWriter will prompt the user to save any edited, unsaved files before the
program closes.
I just wanted to make sure that unsaved is proper in this context.
Thanks.
Kevin Feeman
Technical Publications Manager
MicroMass Communications Inc.
www.micromass.com <http://www.micromass.com/>
(919) 851-3182 Ext. 3105
kevin -dot- feeman -at- micromass -dot- com
