terminology

[Suzette Seveny <sseveny -at- petvalu -dot- com>]

Lots of thanks to everyone who responded.  Most people said to just mention 
that the number is entered to two decimal places.  Others questioned whether we 
needed to say anything - the system should be intuitive.  Here's the final 
decision.

The system is intuitive, in that if I enter 25, it will automatically convert 
it to 25.00 .  The biggest concern was with entering percentages.  We were 
worried that the user would enter the numbers in decimal format - since that is 
what they currently do.  Therefore, we need to tell them that six percent is 
entered as 6, not as .06.

I decided that I don't want to mention the format for all the screens in the 
system (of which there are many).  Therefore, I am going to cover off numerical 
formats in the Conventions Used portion in the Overview section of the User 
Guide.

Many thanks again for all the suggestions!

Suzette Seveny
Markham, Ontario, Canada
sseveny -at- petvalu -dot- com or suzette -at- yesic -dot- com
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