RE: Bullets and numbers living together?

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

In our case, the check box comes after the instruction:

1. Open Microsoft Word.         []

2. Hide the Office Assistant.   []

3. Stomp on Clippy repeatedly.  []

4. Close Word.                  []


(We set this up in tables; I used spaces and brackets above because I'm
posting in plain text.)

We put the check box after the instruction so the reader's eye will be
guided along the instruction. This increases the chance that the reader
will actually *perform* the instruction. Maybe.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Combs, Richard
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 1:33 PM
> To: 'Mike Starr'; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Bullets and numbers living together?
> 
> Not necessarily. More likely, the check boxes are intended to 
> be used to mark completion of each step as the procedure is 
> performed. We've used a setup like that (with 2 columns of 
> check boxes, one for each server in a two-node cluster) for 
> complex, hours-long installation and upgrade procedures. It 
> helped the FEs not lose their place, skip a step, or perform 
> a step on one server, but not the other. 
> 


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