Text Conventions

Various typefaces in this book identify terms and other special objects. These special typefaces include the following:

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All Windows book publishers struggle with how to represent command sequences when menus and dialog boxes are involved. In this book, we separate commands using a comma. Yeah, we know it’s confusing, but this is traditionally how Que’s books do it, and traditions die hard. So, for example, the instruction “Choose Edit, Cut” means that you should open the Edit menu and choose Cut. Another, more complex example is “Select Control Panel, System and Security, Change Battery Settings.”

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