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First choice: Choose Next.
Second choice: Click on the Next button.
Third choice, but most commonly seen: Click Next.
(If available, consider a different typeface for button labels in text, or even a small inline image of the button, as long as it's no taller than the X-height of the text font.)
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> Select Create New (text link)
Assuming it's a single two-word hyperlink...
First choice: Select Create New.
Second choice: Click on the Create New link.
Third choice, but most commonly seen: Click Create New.
(Again, some special representation like underlining makes it easier to parse such phrases.)
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> (menu) Select Tools > Options > ? or
> Select Tools, Options, ? or
> Select Tools/Options/? ???
Only choice: Choose Tools, Options, Whatever.
(It's a sequence of choices, so commas are best. Slashes are nonsense.)
Note that I used "choose." Microsoft used to be really clear and logical about when to use "select" and when to use "choose." "Click So-and-so" is just mushy and imprecise.
Ah, the good old days...
--David
P.S. Make recommendations, but do what the client prefers. :)
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