RE: Nitpicky little style question

["Eric Thomas" <ethomas -at- ftdi -dot- com>]

MMS does indeed say Option button. However, I've found that it depends on
the audience. I've written for developers before that when they read "option
button" they stopped and looked extremely puzzled. They know exactly what
you mean when you write "raido button" instead. However, I've tried to make
my documentation to non-developer audiences just refer to selecting the
option named by the radio/option button and avoiding the word button
entirely.

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Rick Stone
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:04 AM
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Subject: Re: Nitpicky little style question


Hi Brasel

I believe the Microsoft Manual of Style states the term "Option button" is 
preferred.

Cheers... Rick :)

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Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 8:56 AM
Subject: Nitpicky little style question


Good morning, everybody!

I've converted one of old Robohelp systems (which we apparently never used
and probably won't) to a web-based system.  Reading through the files, I
found a "How to use Windows" section-this was written during a transition
from our old VAX system to a Windows based system-and started wondering if
anyone says "radio button" anymore.

Given that everyone who works here either doesn't remember what Unix or
AS400 was (is, for some of you out there) or is familiar with Windows,
should I just use "click," "select," and so on?

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