Function | Description | Example |
[BUTTON] | Text on the button to be clicked is Bold and in brackets | Click [OK] or [EXIT] |
Hyperlink | URL's are Blue, Bold, and Underlined | |
From the Menu pull-down menu, click on the command/to/click | Items in pull-down menus are Red, Bold, with keyboard shortcut letters underlined, and sub-levels seperated with a slash | From the File pull-down menu, select Preferences/
User Preferences |
PATH\TO\A\FILE | The full path to the location of a file is all caps, in bold. File name is as appears. | H:\INFORMATION SYSTEMS\ DISC\Telnet.txt |
%path variable% | Path variables are Bold and bracketed by percent signs | \\%servername%\ins$
or
%systemroot%\SYSTEM32 |
Title or Name of something | Names of files, folders, fields, etc. are in bold | Open the Print dialog and set the paper tray preference. |
|Tab Name| | The name of a Tab in a dialog box is bracketed by "pipes" | Click the |Advanced| Tab |
"entered text" | Text to be entered is bold, in quotes | enter "the text" in The Field |
{description of text to be entered} | Text description to be in Italics, bracketed by non-italic braces | login as ({FirstInitial}{LastName}) |
<ENTER> | To denote a keystroke | when done, hit the <ENTER> key |