Typing Conventions. Priority Dispatch ProQA 3.4

ProQA

3.4

Bold Type

Blue Type

Black Type

Red Type

Bold type is used to indicate commands that you should execute or text that you should enter from the keyboard.

Bold type is also used to highlight specific user interface items.

Blue type is used to indicate a hyperlink. Clicking on a hyperlink will automatically take you to a different section of the user's guide.

Black type is used for section titles. Black type is also used to indicate notes, tips, or helpful hints.

Red type is used to indicate a warning. This is used when the action could result in a loss of data or another significant problem.

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|

Ctrl

OK

+

Keyboard keys are indicated by the text displayed on the key. For example,

Ctrl

,

Alt

, and

Enter

refer to the Control key, the Alternate key, and the Enter key respectively.

Buttons are indicated by the text that is displayed on the button. For example, “click on the

OK

button.”

A vertical bar is used to indicate “then select” when a menu command is presented in an instruction. Instead of saying “Select the

File

command from the menu bar, then select the

Save

command from the

File

menu,” we say “Select

File | Save

.”

The plus sign is used to indicate that you should press a key and then press another key without releasing the first key. For example,

Ctrl+S

means to press the

S

key while holding down the

Ctrl

key.

A comma is used to indicate that you should press a key, release it, and then press another key. For example,

Alt,F

means that you should press and release the

Alt

key, and then press and release the

F

key.

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