RE: A question of grammar vs. brevity.

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Downing, David wrote:
 
> I want to create a single section of a document that deals with both
> adding information to and removing information from something. The
> completely grammatically correct heading for this section would be
> something like:
> 
> "Adding [the information] to and removing [the information] from [the
> thing]."
> 
> I would like to avoid repeating "[the information]."

How about "Updating [the information] in [the thing]"? (Or "on [the
thing]," depending on what [the thing] is.)

Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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