RE: "using" as a verb in a task heading

["Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

The style guide for one company I worked with called for using "to" before
the verb, as "To Use Method A" or "To Verb the Noun."  I think they also
ended the procedure heading with a colon.  I would pick a convention that
fits well with the overall style, if the company did not have its own style
rule.

Lauren

> From: Milan Davidovic

> Let's say you have a task -- for demonstration purposes only, we'll
> call it Verbing the Noun. There are two ways of verbing the noun, so
> one could construct headings as follows:
> 
> Verbing the Noun
>    Using Method A
>    Using Method B
> 
> As I was taught in my initial training, "using" is a poor choice for a
> verb in a task heading (sound familiar? or is this just me?). In this
> case, though, it may be okay. What do you think?


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