Thanks. For my review of chapter 5 I used "choose" after reading that page mentioned by Uwe Fisher.
Emma On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
