Re: Select, choose, click style guide

Subject: Re: Select, choose, click style guide
From: Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM>
To: techwr-l List <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:35:34 +1000

Ned Bedinger wrote:
>
> Anyway, I can execute the default action for a menu item or link or
> checkbox using the keyboard, so why is the vocabulary all about the
> mouse? If I have to say 'click' then why not be clearer and say 'left
> click'?
>
> So in the 21st century, I trust the audience to figure out what I mean
> when I write it simply:
>
> 1. Edit > Find > Replace > All
>
> So far, I haven't ever been taken to task by unhappily lost readers who
> don't know what it means unless it says "click" somewhere.
>

Readers can indeed probably figure out what you
mean but your solution seems to me to be the
equivalent of writing a sentence of all nouns
without any verbs. I think that adding a simple
imperative verb makes the instruction clearer
and the step would be more quickly read and
comprehended.

-- Janice

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References:
Select, choose, click style guide: From: Rob Hudson
RE: Select, choose, click style guide: From: Jennifer Randel
RE: Select, choose, click style guide: From: Chinell, David F (GE EntSol, Security)
Re: Select, choose, click style guide: From: Ned Bedinger

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