Re: would you?

Subject: Re: would you?
From: Jo Baer <jbaer -at- mailbox1 -dot- tcfbank -dot- com>
To: Kevin Feeman <Kevin -dot- Feeman -at- micromass -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:05:00 -0600

I vote against "unsaved." How about "Before CopyWriter closes, it will
prompt the user to save any files that have been edited but not saved."

--
Jo Baer
Senior Technical Writer
TCF Financial Corporation
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Forget world peace.
Visualize using your turn signal.

Bumper S. Ticker


Kevin Feeman wrote:
>
> In writing a manual, a colleague suggested using the word "unsaved" for
> talking about files that have not been saved. Is unsaved really a word. It
> seems a little funny to me. I looked it up, and the word is for being
> "saved" as in Christianity.
>
> I had the following:
>
> CopyWriter will prompt the user to save any edited files that have not been
> saved before the program closes.
>
> She suggested:
>
> CopyWriter will prompt the user to save any edited, unsaved files before the
> program closes.




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