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Re: please test this method of identifying document icons with hyperlinks

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From: Angela French
Date: Oct 4, 2011 3:21PM

So a links list reads the links in alphabetical order?

So what do others think:
Icon before the link (reads "Document Type" + "link label") or
Icon after the link (reads "Link label" + "Document type")?

I would think the latter would be preferable.

Thank you for your opinion.

>however, you could argue that the title might be of more importance to the
>user than the application or format of the document. This is a judgement
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>Having the Word Document appear first in the link will cause all of the Word
>documents to be grouped together if the user brings up the links using the
>links list. So this is an argument for presenting the links in this way.
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