Re: Ellipsis button - what is it called?

["Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher -at- EXPERSOFT -dot- COM>]

>>I'm trying to reference an ellipsis button (...) in our software.

This may seem like a direct contradiction to my post on graphics
yesterday, but I don't think it really is.

Don't use the word "ellipsis" in your docs. That's an English-nerd
word!  ;-) Most non-writers (non-nerds) in our audience read, think,
know our friend the ellipsis as "dotdotdot". So, just say, for example:

     "Click ... and browse to the file location."

and the user will subvocalize "dotdotdot" and know exactly what you mean.

And it doesn't hurt to increase the font size a smidgen for the dots, either.

Two cents???
At this rate, I'll have no cents (sense???) left by week's end!  ;-)
-Sue Gallagher               http://pw1.netcom.com/~gscale/susanwg/
sgallagher -at- expersoft -dot- com     http://www.expersoft.com

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