What is the source for this preference for "click" instead of "click on"? The conventions I've always heard are "click on" a GUI element and "press" a key on the keyboard.
I prefer "click on" because what you are clicking is the mouse button, not the actual GUI element.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Alda [mailto:alan4077alda -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:15 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: "Click on" or "click"
on". I have recently started technical writing, but
have already read at several places that "click on"
should be avoided and simply "click" should be used
instead.
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