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>You are documenting a screen. The title of the screen is:
> Customer Payment Report
>It has several input capable fields after the title for selection
>criteria. Do you write:
> On the Customer Payment Report Screen, you can . . .
> or
> On the Customer Payment Report screen, you can . . . ?
The latter example with lower-case "screen" is correct for the very
reason you said:
>I have always used lower case when referring to a menu,
>screen, box, etc. that is NOT included in the actual title.
Furthermore, this convention or rule extends to another kind of
situation, where two or more differently named entities of the
same type are listed. For example:
"I have made canoe trips on the Colorado and Russian rivers."
If I were referring only to one of those named entities, I would have
written the "Colorado River."
Live long & prosper,
Mike LaTorra
Documentation Supervisor
Accugraph Inc.
mikel -at- accugraph -dot- com
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company -- but they probably ][ have a lot of them. The real ques-
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