Re: in or on

["Sandy, Corinne" <CHS8 -at- CPSOD1 -dot- EM -dot- CDC -dot- GOV>]

In or on

I would Capitalize and bold or italicize "Student" and write:  Click on the
Student icon.  (no displayed in/on browser)   I believe it's obvious to the
user if you are on the screen that it is displayed.


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> The application I'm writing about has a tree browser that displays icons
> representing the different members of a school's organization. Which
> sounds better:

> Click the student icon displayed in the browser.

> or

> Click the student icon displayed on the browser.

> (Would you leave off the word icon? Would you use 'select' instead of
> 'click'?)

> Thanks for the help

> Chani Sacharen
> edunet -at- zeus -dot- datasrvv -dot- co -dot- il


Here's an answer I'm sure you didn't expect ---> It would depend.

If this was a step in a procedure and the actions of the previous step
indicated that a "browser is displayed", I would probably write:

      Select the student icon.

Then again ,"select" indicates an existing knowledge of how to "select" for

particular type of software. For example clicking vs. double clicking. The
docs
I have worked on typically have a section that discusses "selecting an
icon".
If this were true, I would probably write:

     Select the strudent icon from the browser.

Knowing only what's in your message, my answer is:

     Click on the student icon displayed by the browser.


Frank


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