Janet - What about something like Outline? As in *Show Outline.*
On a semi-related note, have a look at some beautiful TOCs here:
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/table-of-contents-creative-and-beautiful-examples/
Swapnil
On 2 March 2017 at 14:33, Corey Wallis <corey.wallis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Jane,
My immediate thought is that either ‘Contents List’ or ‘Table of Contents’
work. It depends on your target audience and the terminology that they’re
familiar with. Additionally consistency is very important, and the change
in terminology would need to be applied to both old and new documents.
My main concern is the loss of the action word.
As I understand it, the Contents List isn’t displayed when the document
first opens. The user needs to click on this heading in order to show the
Contents List. The action word helps to make it clear that this is an
element that the user can click on in order for the action to occur.
In my mind either ‘Contents List’ or ‘Table of Contents’ works, depending
on your target audience. I personally would be making an argument to retain
the action word.
I’m definitely interested in seeing what other subscribers to this list
think.
Hope this helps.
-Corey
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Corey Wallis, BBus, BSc(Hons)
Business Analyst, Student Systems
Flinders University
*From:* austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@f
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*Subject:* atw: A question of a name: table of contents or contents list
I am giving this message on my documentation pages that are opened on a PC
without a table of contents:
*Show Contents List* (the capitals are because it’s for mostly American
readers)
I’m sure you can guess what it means.
I selected these words after doing a survey of my mostly young and
non-native-English speaking colleagues. (Most favoured a graphic but I
wasn’t willing to do that .)
Now I’m being asked to change it to: *Table of contents*
No action, just the name.
I thought Table of contents was a name that most of us older people might
use but I’ve been shown many examples of Table of contents in use by large
organisations (Apple being one of them).
Could I have your opinion please?
