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Subject:RE: follow the following From:"Hill, Leo" <Leo -dot- Hill -at- kci1 -dot- com> To:"Esthee Erasmus" <Esthee -at- k2workflow -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:44:12 -0500
Short and direct is how I do it.
State the action required - "Changing the Canister"
[State any Safety Awareness issues]
Step 1)
Step 2)
Step 3)
continue as necessary
Leo
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Subject: follow the following
Hi,
I'm writing a user manual at the moment and wonder whether there's a better way of saying:
To perform the desired action follow the following steps:
It just seems very clumsy. Our style is a bit formal, so saying 'do the following' or something like that would not be correct. I'm leaning towards 'perform the steps provided below:' but that seems a but cumbersome. Any ideas?
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