When you are reading and you want to pay attention to a special word (for example colour_number), do you see the special word and notice how it is formed?
or
…you notice the special word and see how it is formed.
I am writing a how to and the reader should pay attention to a word to then pay attention to how to do something. I do not know if somebody see and then notice, if somebody firstly notice and then see, or if this is a dumb question.
If prefer to see and then to notice because firstly you have to see the word and then realize about that, but the other one sounds good to me.
Best Answer
The answer to your question is a but tricky since you are using two different meanings of two different words see and notice
First things first: In order to visually notice something, one must first physically see it.
It is possible to
but this notice is not visual
Notice can mean to casually see
In your sentence
because you're using the word notice the reader could honestly answer that they saw and observed the word without understanding it
In your alternative sentence
You probably want the reader to (using the imperatives)
notice is not an imperative, and then