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Subject:Re: Choosing a menu option From:jennap <jennap -at- STINGSOFT -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 12 Aug 1997 15:22:37 -0400
From the Create menu, choose Message...
If you check out the Microsoft style guide, this is the way they do it.
Not that MS knows everything by a long shot, but it means that most
users know what this kind of wording means. It's also better, IMO.
ttfn--jenna
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> Which would you use to describe how to choose a menu option:
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> "From the menu, choose Create - Message."
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> or
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> "From the Create menu, choose Message."
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