You can add help at the F1 key and in the status bar using the properties
dialog for a field. Otherwise, you could pop up a messagebox with your text
via an onEntry macro. Not sure why you want help to popup when you tab out
of a field, but you could have an on-exit macro instead. All of this is set
in the field's properties while the form is unprotected.

What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." For more
about online forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm.

Hope this helps,
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Shari" wrote in message
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I added help text to a form field and want it to pop up when you tab to the
field. However, when I go to record the macro, it records the F1
Microsoft
Help screen. If I lock the form, I get the F1 help text, but I can't
record
a macro when the form is locked. Any suggestions?