Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition

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Throughout this book, you’ll find sentences like this one: “To remove Word formatting controls, choose Edit→Clear→Clear Formatting.” That’s shorthand for a much longer instruction that directs you to open three menus in sequence, like this: “Open the Edit menu by clicking Edit in the menu bar. In the Edit menu, click Clear to open a second menu. In that menu, click Clear Formatting to complete the process.” Figure 1 shows a closer look.

Figure 1. In this book, arrow notations help simplify folder and menu instructions. For example, “Choose Edit→Clear→Clear Formatting” is a more compact way of saying “From the Edit menu, choose Clear; from the submenu that appears, choose Clear Formatting,” as shown here.