atw: Re: Terminology for wizards

If is not a different window or tab, you could refer to the next "panel"
or even just "display".

 

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John Snow

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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Howard Silcock
Sent: Thursday, 9 July 2009 3:00 PM
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Subject: atw: Terminology for wizards

 

This post isn't directed at Harry Potter's mates. It's about documenting
a Windows procedure that uses what Microsoft calls a 'wizard', in which
you are taken through a series of displays, at each of which you enter
information, then click a Next button to go to the next one. I'm
reviewing some documentation in which the successive displays are
referred to as 'screens'. I may be picky, but I really don't like to use
'screen' except to refer to the piece of hardware in your monitor. I
don't think 'window' sounds quite right, though, in this case - and nor
does 'dialog box'. Has anyone else had to document this kind of stuff?

 

Howard



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