Tips and Tricks

This section provides useful tips and tricks on issues that we encounter on a regular basis when writing documentation.

In This Section

• A vs. The
• A Part of vs. Part of
• A SQL Server vs. An SQL Server
• Abilities vs. Capabilities
• And vs. Or
• At the End vs. In the End
• Authentication vs. Authorization
• Available To vs. Available For
• Backup vs. Back Up, Failover vs. Fail Over, Failback vs. Fail Back
• Below and Above
• Cancelled vs. Canceled
• Click vs. Click on vs. Click at
• Comma After That Is Why
• Contractions and Posessives
• Dates
• Deselect vs. Unselect
• Duplicate Words
• Each vs. Every
• Email vs. E-mail
• Filename Extensions
• Footnotes
• Hyphens with Prefixes
• Latinisms
• Log in to vs. Log into
• Number vs. #
• Numbers
• OSes vs. OSs
• Please
• Plurals
• Prepositions Before Infrastructure Objects
• Recover vs. Restore
• Select vs. Choose vs. Click vs. Press
• Several vs. Multiple
• State vs. Status
• Storage vs. Storages
• There Is a Number of vs. There Are a Number of
• Try to Do vs. Try Doing
• Type vs. Enter vs. Specify vs. Provide
• Unable vs. Failed vs. Cannot