{"id":83,"date":"2005-06-06T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2005-06-06T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-06T09:20:00","slug":"to-click-or-select","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/to-click-or-select\/","title":{"rendered":"To Click or Select…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your styleguide says it is ‘select’. The whole world says ‘click’. You are confused. So am I. I have tried being informal while writing instructions: “Hit the Submit button to complete regiustration.” But they spanked me for being so casual and changed ‘hit’ to ‘select’. You know, no one reads manuals. Now I know why.<\/p>\n

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Your styleguide says it is ‘select’. The whole world says ‘click’. You are confused. So am I. I have tried being informal while writing instructions: “Hit the Submit button to complete regiustration.” But they spanked me for being so casual and changed ‘hit’ to ‘select’. You know, no one reads manuals. 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