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The company that required us to put steps in a table also required that steps be broken down to their lowest level. Sean's example below would have been:
1. | Click File. | A dialog box opens.
2. | Click Open. | The file opens.
For every action, the expected result is listed. A bit wordy, but utterly unambiguous. In many (most?) cases the third column could be ignored, but it's there, just in case. I suspect the format also facilitated testing of the software.
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>>1. | Click File, and then click Open. | The file opens.
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>>Sean
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