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It is an accepted convention in menu design to use ellipsis (the three dots) to tell the user that further action will be required if they select that menu item.
For example, let's look at the Save vs Save As items:
When you Save a document, it will automatically write the information to the file it is currently working on.
However, if you chose the Save As... option it would pop up a new window for you to choose a new file name or location.
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