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Subject:Re: Unset? Can that be a verb? From:Marguerite Krupp <mkrupp128 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l List <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:41:46 -0800 (PST)
I agree with Dana. Not only is this method simpler, but users are already familiar with the idea from MS conventions such as "Set as default printer."
two more cents
Marguerite
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Dana Worley <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com> wrote:
From: Dana Worley <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com>
Subject: Re: Unset? Can that be a verb?
To: "techwr-l List" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 10:34 AM
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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Campbell Scientific, Inc.
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