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Variations on a task

Subject: Variations on a task
From: Melanie Fielek <mfielek -at- inri -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 13:22:15 -0400

At 09:37 AM 04/12/2000 -0700, kanerb -at- concentric -dot- net wrote:

The Help does contain one of my pet peeves -- the phrase "do one of the
following:" Yuck.

So, how do y'all deal with documenting several different ways of accomplishing the same task?

This simple example shows what I've been doing so far:

1. Open a file using one of these methods:

o From the File menu, select Open.
o On the toolbar, click the Open button (pic of button).

2-n. Next step(s) follow.

I'm not really pleased with this construction, but it's all I've thought of so far. More importantly, my cutomers haven't complained -- they're happy that I document all possible ways of doing something. (This being the reason I haven't spent a lot of time trying to fix it!)

Any other "methods" out there?

-- Melanie

Melanie Fielek, Technical Writer/Editor, mfielek -at- inri -dot- com
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