My wife's Word97 help seems to use term dialog box.
Matej
On 8 Jun 2001, at 9:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, John Levon wrote:
> > Are the doc team still insistent on this term ? It seems both
> > unfamiliar to users, and a bad description (the dialogs do /not/ pop
> > up).
>
> IIRC, this was chosen as a compromise - we wanted to avoid the
> developer jargon ("dialog box" was deemed jargon) and use something a
> typical user might say. What does M$ Word (shudder!) call such things?
> That, unfortunately, is what we should attempt to be consistent with,
> since that is what typical users will know.
>
> Mike
>
>
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> Mike Ressler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> OK, I'm lame: I don't have my own website ...
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