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Table hold, contain, store?
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15/04/2017 02:02:27
Walter Meester
HoogkarspelNetherlands
 
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Business
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Technical writing
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01650168
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>>>Hi,
>>>When writing technical documentation and describing the purpose of a table, which word would be better to use in the following sentence:
>>>The table will hold records ...
>>>The table will contain records ...
>>>The table will store records ...
>>>
>>>TIA
>>
>>Actually, a table will store "rows". Not that records is wrong - but rows is arguably a better term.
>
>I am writing some user documentation (for non-technical users) and adding "rows" will confuse them even more. They understand 'records' much better.

Most users I know, would prefer rows, not records. records is a term for a technical implementation, rows is more what a user experiences.
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