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If you *have* to use "click", use "click", not "click on".
*However*...
"Click" is a pet peeve of mine. You do not "click" a
button. You click a *mouse* button to *select* a GUI
button. Since there are many ways of selecting an object
(mouse, accel key, etc.), I always write "Select the blahblah
button" instead of "Click" -- that way, I let the user
decide how they want to select it. (If the users are such
novices that they might not know what selection options
they have, I include a module describing them.)
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>From: Floramaria Deter[SMTP:fmc -at- NETCOM -dot- COM]
>Sent: Thursday, May 15, 1997 1:08 PM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: Technical Writing Books
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>For example, I have been told to write "click on the button" but according to
>the Manual of Style book, the correct way is to write "click the button."
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