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From: Price, Becca
Date: Tuesday, August 22, 1995 3:39PM
myself, I prefer to mention things in the order in which they will do them.
"Select Open from the File menu" is basackward to me. I prefir "Select
File>>Open" or "From the File menu, select Open" OTOH, I was trained by a
fierce editor early on to *ALWAYS* (his shouting, not mine) start a step
with an action verb, and not bury the action after a modifying clause.
