Microsoft® Manual of Style, Fourth Edition

E

e.g.

Abbreviation for exempli gratia, meaning for example. Do not use. Use for example instead.

earlier

Use earlier, preceding, or previous instead of above to mean earlier in a piece of content, but only if you cannot use a hyperlink, which is preferred.

Use or earlier or previous instead of or lower to refer to all versions of a product that precede a particular release if the statement is accurate for all preceding releases. For example, do not use “Windows 7 and earlier” unless the statement is accurate for Windows 1.0. See also cross-references, later, version identifiers.

Microsoft style (when the statement applies to all previous versions)

You can open files created in previous versions of Microsoft Visio.

e-book

Use e-book to refer to electronic ...