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Subject:RE: Use of 'populate' From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 6 Mar 2008 14:36:56 -0500
On Behalf Of Gilbert, Brian said many things, including:
> Also, unless there is another Actions item for the dialog box or
window
> or there are so many items that the user could get confused, I would
use
> "Click Actions" instead of Click the Actions button.
It happens that I don't have ongoing need to use square brackets for any
other reason in my docs, so the convention that I've established is to
surround a button name with square brackets to (very loosely) simulate
or indicate the button-ness of it all.
8. ...blah-blah-blah and click [Next].
9. If you are satisfied with the installation summary, click [Finish].
Otherwise, click [Back] to modify any of the settings before
returning to
the final page of the dialog.
Kevin
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