Acronyms

All uppercase; usually spelled out on first use

User Interface Integration (UII)

Book titles

Title caps, italic

See the Visual Basic Custom Control Reference.

Section titles

Title caps, in quotation marks, or underlined, no quotation marks if hyperlinked

See Section 9, "Extending Forms."

See Preparing for UII Installation.

Command-line commands and options (switches)

All lowercase, bold

copy command

/a option

Commands on menus

Bold

File menu

Dialog box options

Bold

Click Continue.

Dialog box titles, wizard dialog titles

Bold

Find and Replace dialog box
Data Submitted for Import dialog

Directory names

Initial capitalization; internal capitalization can be used for readability

\\Irstaxforms\audit

\\IRSTaxForms\Audit

Emphasis or new words

Italic

The software includes both client and server components.

Error messages

Sentence-style capitalization enclosed in quotation marks

You will receive the following error message: "Access denied"

File names

Title capitalization; internal capitalization (camel casing) can be used for readability.

Filename.doc

FileName.doc

Folder and directory names

Bold in procedures; regular font elsewhere

Open the NewDocs folder

\\Accounting\Payroll\Overtime

Menu names

Bold, title capitalization

On the File menu…

Parameters

Italic

CCAagentname

Programming elements (API names, methods, classes, directives, functions, and so on)

Bold in text; monospace in code examples

filebuf

filebuf

Program names

Title capitalization

Microsoft Visual Basic

URLs

Lower case

http://msdn.microsoft.com

Windows, named

Title caps

Help window.

Windows, unnamed

Lower case

document window