January 2012
Beginner
464 pages
14h 4m
English
Content preview from Microsoft® Manual of Style, Fourth Edition
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G
G, G byte, Gbyte
Do not use as an abbreviation for gigabyte. Use GB instead. See also GB, gigabyte.
gallery
A gallery is a collection of pictures, charts, or other graphics that the user can select from. Use the verb click or select for the items in a gallery.
Microsoft style
Select an option from the gallery.
Click the picture that you want to select.
game pad
Two words.
Gantt chart
Note capitalization.
garbage collection
All right to use in content for a technical audience. Garbage collection refers to the automatic recovery of heap memory or to the automatic deletion of objects that the run-time environment determines are no longer being used. The garbage ...