Re: Unset? Can that be a verb?

["Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com>]

On Friday, February 26, 2010, Janice Gelb wrote: 

> I'd try to avoid changing the label depending on the setting. Can the
> interface be changed so that the name of the menu option becomes a
> toggle named just "Default Configuration"? A checkmark could appear next
> to the term if it is set as the default and either nothing or an X next
> to the term if it is not selected.

We use this same convention as well. I think it is fairly standard and easily understood. 

2 cents,

Dana W.



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