Re: future tense vs present tense

[Milan Davidović <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Harvey, Jon
<Jon -dot- Harvey -at- perkinelmer -dot- com> wrote:
> I had an interesting conversation with one of my colleagues. The topic was when to use future tense in instructions versus present tense. Such as:
>
> "After you press ENTER, your changes will be saved." versus "After you press ENTER, your changes are saved."

If you can recall, how did you land on this topic ? Was it from
something one of you had seen, or something one of you is/was working
on, or... ?

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