Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Three Bold Periods... and a fourth Unbolded

I was looking at options for automatically creating an index in Word and it led me to http://indexres.com/downloads/pdf/Win_Guide.pdf

It’s bad enough that the author chose to include the … when referring to the menu option but it gets worse when they don’t do it consistently. Three bold periods, followed by an unbolded period looks SO wrong.

And it’s kind of creeping me out that “Cindex will ask you to name the tag set” – I would have rewritten it to say “to start a new tag set, click New and name the tag set.” Software is not alive, it can’t ask you anything. It can prompt you to enter information.

And then to not have the 4th bullet for Delete… .

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