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Click, Choose, and Select (the hilarious comedy team of)
Subject:Click, Choose, and Select (the hilarious comedy team of) From:Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- ATLANTIC-82 -dot- ENG -dot- SUN -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 2 Feb 1996 12:49:36 -0800
We use "choose" for menu items, "select" for lists, and "click" for
buttons such as OK. And we instruct users to "type" rather than "enter"
text for the same reason that Scott gave: Enter is a key name. We also
include a small section in the preface explaining our GUI terminology.
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