Hello
I agree with Dan.
Those nice pictograms on toolbars should be called icons. Buttons when
pressed normally give the impression that you have just pressed a
button. When you click an icon, a tool or dialog opens and there is no
impression of a button being pressed.
Regards
PeterS
On 24 Jan 2013, at 15:50, Dan Lewis wrote:
On 01/24/2013 09:37 AM, John Smith wrote:
Hi all
To have a consistent instruction across the documents, do we, for
example, say 'Click the Save button' or 'Click the Save icon'?
Is button reserved for such items as 'OK', 'Cancel', 'Apply' for
example?
JohnS
1. Or do we refer to the elements of a toolbar as tools? What we
see on the toolbar are icons, but they represent tools.
2. I think I would prefer to use the term icon; and when it is
clicked, it opens the corresponding tool.
3. Personal opinion: buttons should be reserved for items in the
shape of a button such as those already mentioned. One of the icons
in the Forms Control toolbar opens a tool to create a button.
Anything looking like it possibly ought to be called a button. (my 2
cents worth)
--Dan
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