Re: Choosing a menu option

Subject: Re: Choosing a menu option
From: jennap <jennap -at- STINGSOFT -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 15:22:37 -0400

From the Create menu, choose Message...

If you check out the Microsoft style guide, this is the way they do it.
Not that MS knows everything by a long shot, but it means that most
users know what this kind of wording means. It's also better, IMO.

ttfn--jenna

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> Which would you use to describe how to choose a menu option:
>
> "From the menu, choose Create - Message."
>
> or
>
> "From the Create menu, choose Message."
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