Emma Kirsopp wrote:
I am in the process of reviewing CG3 Ch6 Printing Exporting Emailing. Some
of the instructions read "Select File>Print" and others read "Choose
file>Print" Is there a reason for this difference? It looks a bit untidy so
I am changing the "Choose" to "Select". Will this affect the instruction?
Earlier, I wrote:
As long as it's consistent through a chapter, either is okay...
I can't recall (and can't look up right now) whether we have a
decision on this (which word to use) in our style guide.
I can't find word choices for this and other situations in our style
guide, but Uwe Fisher mentioned this page:
http://specs.openoffice.org/collaterals/guides/text-style-guide.html#Specific
which says to use "choose" to open a menu and to choose a menu item.
I think "choose" is what we've used most often in the user guides, so
I suggest we make it the preferred term for this use.
(The referenced page recommends some other terminology that we do not
normally use, like "mark" for checkboxes.)
--Jean
