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RE: Colons versus periods in procedures containing
Subject:RE: Colons versus periods in procedures containing From:Sion Lane <sion -dot- lane -at- unit4 -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 27 Nov 2018 08:46:08 +0000
Just going by the text in your example then I think a period is appropriate, however if the step introduces the image in some way ("...as shown below") then I think a colon would make sense.
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