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Cirrus Matusek <CMatusek -at- LTDCOMMODITIES -dot- COM> wrote:
<snip>My audience consists of warehouse worker types as well as corporate
office types. For the header for the brief description be "Screen
Functionality" or "Purpose of Screen" or something else?<snip>
What about "Use This Screen for" and then the business app name? Or "What
This Screen Does"? I think the subtleties of "screen functionality" and
"purpose of screen" are going to be lost on the warehouse workers. If this
is
a procedure manual, I'd tie the header into the procedure name if possible.
