Capitalization
Use title caps for the following user interface controls. Title caps rules specify that all parts of speech are capitalized, with the exception of articles, coordinating conjunctions (and, but, for, not, or, so, and yet), and prepositions containing four or fewer letters.
- Button label
- Menu label
- Menu command label
- Soft key label
- Tree view label
- Window, dialog box, and error message titles
Use sentence caps for the following user interface controls. Sentence caps rules specify that only the first word and any proper nouns are capitalized.
- Check box label
- Error message text
- Instructional text
- Progress bar label
- Text box label
- Time picker label
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Last updated on Friday, April 22, 2005
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