RE: "Picklist"

Subject: RE: "Picklist"
From: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:27:46 -0400

We use this term when staging manufactured hardware products for
shipment. We write it as two words: "pick list." For GUI terminology, we
would use "list box" or "drop-down list."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Allison
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 11:12 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: "Picklist"
>
> Have just come across this word for the first time. I find it . . .
> unpleasant.
>
> Do you use this term? Surely "listbox" or just plain "list"
> are the usual terms. Or has this word been around and I've
> just missed it?
>

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"Picklist": From: Nancy Allison

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