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Subject:Re: Clearing the check marks From:"Milan Davidovic" <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:28:55 -0400
Even if it's possible that no check boxes are selected, I'd still go
with #1. I suppose you could add "Check boxes may already be clear" --
depends what you think your readers want.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Boudreaux, M (GE Healthcare,
consultant) <MadelynBoudreaux -at- ge -dot- com> wrote:
> Hi, all!
>
>> When you are instructing a user that all checkboxes on a form or
>> dialogue box need to be deselected, with no way of knowing if any of
>> them may be selected at any given time, how do you write the step?
>>
>> 1) Deselect all check boxes. (Simple, and active, but there may be
>> none that need to be deselected.)
etc.
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