RE: re "check" the box (was RE: "Click on" or "click")

Subject: RE: re "check" the box (was RE: "Click on" or "click")
From: Jim Shaeffer <jims -at- spsi -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 12:01:03 -0500


>From Microsoft Manual of Style ...
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check
Do not use as a verb when referring to a check box in a dialog box; use
*select* or *clear* instead. Do not use as a noun to mean *check mark*.

check box
*Select* and *clear* check boxes (not *turn on* and *turn off*, *mark* and
*unmark*, *check* and *uncheck*, or *select* and *deselect*). Also, use the
identifier *check box*, not just *box*, to refer to this option, because box
alone is ambiguous for localizers.
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Posted as comment, not the Final Answer.

Jim Shaeffer (jims -at- spsi -dot- com)



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