Re: Style Guidelines for pull-down menus

["Olive, Eric" <EOlive -at- GLHEC -dot- ORG>]

Mary,

As Sean Brierley suggested yesterday in response to a similar question, why
not keep it simple?

Choose Search>Search Menu Option.

As for standards, the previous responses to your post are on the mark; there
is not standard. Some prefer choose, others select. MS uses click. I prefer
choose because it clearly distinguishes pull-down/drop-down menus from items
one selects in a list box and buttons one clicks in a dialog box.

Eric O.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman, Mary [SMTP:Mary -dot- Norman -at- WESTGROUP -dot- COM]
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 9:18 AM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Style Guidelines for pull-down menus
>
>                 We are trying to get some clarity about how to document a
> pull-down menu correctly.
>
>                 Our doc team is currently using the following construction
> when documenting a procedure within a program:
>
>                 Select Search, Search Menu Option.
>                 So the basic construction is: Select x, y.
>
>                 However, another contractor suggested this: From the menu,
> choose x, y.
>
>                 Here's are our concerns:
>
> 1.      Which one of these methods is the "standard"? If neither, can you
> offer some suggestions?
> 2.      Should we use "choose" over "select" in our procedures?
>
>                 Thanks!
>
>
>                 Mary Norman
>                 Technical Writer
>                 Documentation Group/Rochester
>                 x6418
>
>
>

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