PPT Slide
- Distinguish captions and fields with a visual cue (bold versus plain, upper versus lower case) and a delimiter (e.g. colon); highlight fields when a data entry is from a source document; otherwise highlight captions (but be consistent if a system contains both kinds of forms).
- Captions should be brief, familiar and descriptive; use abbreviations and contractions when data entry is from a source document; otherwise spell out captions in full; avoid computer jargon, but exploit user jargon; use consistent terminology.
- Indicate the number of character spaces in a field with underscores (versus column separators, brackets or reverse video) which are overstruck when data is entered.
- Indicate when fields are optional.
Fill-In Forms: captions & fields (2)