MS Re: "Click-and-drag" or just "drag" -- ?

[Wei JIANG [PT-CN]]

The attached Word 2003 document lists all the strings - 107 of them - 
that contain "click and drag", from all MS products published by June 4, 
2012. Enjoy!

Wei Jiang
English<>Chinese Translator and Multilingual DTPer based in Beijing, China


All those On 10/26/2012 4:21 AM, Bill Swallow wrote:
> Ah, but what's the publish date? It'd be interesting to see if they
> ignore their own style guidelines or if these examples predate their
> v.4 MoS.
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Wei JIANG [PT-CN]
> <jiangw at polytrans.com.cn> wrote:
>> Out of the multilingual Microsoft corpus which covers all their major
>> products, I do see quite a few instances of "click and drag". They are:
>>
>> Click to select a row, or click and drag to select multiple rows. Drag
>> selected row(s) to move them to desired tab order.
>> To CREATE a break line, click at the desired postion.\nTo DELETE a break
>> line, double click on the line.\nTo MOVE a break line, click and drag it
>> To MOVE a break line, click and drag it.
>> To move a column break, click and drag the line
>> Click and drag to remove cell partitions.
>> Click and drag to insert |.
>> Click and drag to create a table and to draw rows, columns and borders.
>> Click and drag to select several objects.
>> Click and drag to insert a control.
>> Click and drag to draw a motion path
>> :-)
>>
>> Wei

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