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Subject:RE: Word to describe an empty check box From:Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- cytomedix -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L (techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:13:31 -0500
WADR, Tony, this is from MSTP:
"Select and clear: Use for check boxes."
Also from MSTP:
"Enable, enabled: Avoid in end-user documentation... In developer documentation, it is acceptable to speak of a feature or function as enabled."
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Chung
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 10:15 PM
To: Margaret Cekis
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Word to describe an empty check box
Yes. The option is enabled or disabled. Don't call attention to the UI control checked or unchecked status (according to MSTP).
-Tony
On Monday, January 13, 2014, Margaret Cekis wrote:
> Helen Oboyle asked for a Word to describe an empty check box "Our
> internal standard is to format our description of UI check boxes as:
> "If selected, blah. If cleared, blah."
> CLEARED?
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