John Levon wrote: > > No, if we go for ellipsis == dialog, we should not vary on it at all, > with the exception of ones that *may* bring up a dialog, such as "Save". > My personal preference would be to use the ellipsis only in the cases where an unavoidable fill in the the blank happens, f.ex Save as: The point is to tell the user in advance that they will be expected to provide information that they may have to think about, like where do really want to save this file. On some dialogs, like Document->Paper it is obvious that you will probably have to supply information, but usually I am just looking to see what the settings are. In brief, I think the ellipsis should be used a infrequently as possible.
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