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Since a large percentage of my audience members are EFL, I'm going to continue to spell things out for them a little better than Bill Gates seems to think is necessary. I'm also writing mostly online documentation so I don't have to be considered with over-conciseness for the sake of saving paper.
As for "on" be unnecessary, I disagree. Grammatically it belongs in the sentence because you are clicking on something not actually clicking it. I've heard the same argument about being unnecessary used to strike all of the articles from a huge set of manuals, and the real reason was one of printing economics, but they insisted on carrying the convention over to electronic documentation also.
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From: Stevenson, Rebecca [mailto:Rebecca -dot- Stevenson -at- workscape -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:59 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: "Click on" or "click"
As far as I can tell, the justification is that "on" is an unnecessary word in this context, so it may as well be eliminated.
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