Titles must be concise but also comprehensible. Don’t use full sentences, but include whatever articles and prepositions are necessary to make the meaning of the title clear.
Avoid beginning a heading with a needless article.
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Yes:
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Parameters Tab
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Titles that appear on a high hierarchy level within the table of contents should be particularly short because longer titles make it difficult to grasp a document’s structure from the table of contents.
Titles that appear on a lower hierarchy level can be slightly more verbose because:
▪Users view these titles less often. ▪Topics on a low hierarchy level are often highly specialized topics that need more explanation than general topics at the top level. If it helps to improve the readability of headings, it’s OK to use colons, parentheses, or dashes.
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