The GUI Guide
International Terminology for the Windows™ Interface
European Edition
Microsoft Press, 1993
239 pages
ISBN: 1-5561-5538-7

International word lists were an interesting appendix to 1995’s The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design, but two years earlier were put together for this book. It presents Windows 3.1 terms translated to 14 languages, sorted both by alphabet and by category. These lists seem a big waste of space, especially as they’re also present on an attached diskette (277 KB). However, first thirty pages slightly redeem the book, containing a condensed round-up of popular and obscure graphical elements of Windows 3.1 – with a lot of illustrated examples.

The following paragraphs are quoted verbatim from the back cover:

Maintaining consistency with standard Microsoft® Windows operating system-based programs is key to creating intuitive, user-friendly applications for the global market. Here’s a handy guide that provides terminology translations and Microsoft’s guidelines for developing or localizing Windows-based applications for the European market, the largest market for computer software.

Part I describes and offers localization guidelines for the main components of the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface, including:

	Window elements-sizing, scrolling, and splitting controls
	Menus and dialog boxes
	Toolbars and rulers
	Shortcut and access keys
	Message boxes and status indicators
	Multimedia controls
	Linking, embedding, and manipulating objects

Part II translates hundreds of GUI components – listed both by category and alphabetically – in 14 languages. And to make localization faster and easier, the companion disk contains all the terminology translations, in both Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Windows Write formats.

The appendixes include illustrations of keyboard layouts in 14 languages; tables of national standards for time, currency, and other elements; and tables of various character sets.

Includes standard translations for hundreds of GUI terms in these languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.

Book contains: One 720-KB 3.5” disk.

System Requirements: Microsoft Windows operating system version 3.1.
To display and print the Czech, Hungarian, and Polish terminology, the user needs Windows 3.1 for Central and Eastern Europe.
To display and print the Russian terminology, the user needs the Russian (Cyrillic) version of Windows 3.1.