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Hi all, I am getting to grips with Word 2007 and love it - but today have
been unable to create a document I would like to. I want to have a main information document with an indicator (any type - bubble, box ect) at the side which will open more information if hovered over, then disappears again when you move the mouse away. Sense? I have a very smooth, nicely designed idea in my head (seen similar on web sites) and I am sure with the new smart art etc in 2007 I should be able to do this. I dont really want to navigate to another document using hyperlinks unless this is the only option. Any help will be much appreciated. Wendy |
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On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:08:01 -0700, WendyMc
wrote: Hi all, I am getting to grips with Word 2007 and love it - but today have been unable to create a document I would like to. I want to have a main information document with an indicator (any type - bubble, box ect) at the side which will open more information if hovered over, then disappears again when you move the mouse away. Sense? I have a very smooth, nicely designed idea in my head (seen similar on web sites) and I am sure with the new smart art etc in 2007 I should be able to do this. I dont really want to navigate to another document using hyperlinks unless this is the only option. Any help will be much appreciated. Wendy The new SmartArt won't provide anything like what you imagine, nor will any of the new features. You should be aware that interactive things you see on web pages are unlikely to be available in Word -- this is a word processor, not a web browser (though the distinction is growing smaller with each release). The only thing in Word that reliably provides a popup when you hover over text is the ScreenTip of a hyperlink. You can arrange to make it do what you want as follows: - Select the text (word, phrase, sentence, etc.) that you want to make into a hover target. - Click Insert Bookmark and supply a name (it can be anything as long as it's unique and without spaces, and it should be recognizable). - While that text is still selected, click Insert Hyperlink. In the dialog, click the "Place in This Document" button on the left, then click the bookmark name in the middle. The "Text to display" box at the top should show the selected text; leave that as is. Click the ScreenTip button next to it, and enter the content for the popup, up to about 240 characters. Back in the document, the text will be formatted as a hyperlink, blue and underlined. If you want to change that formatting, you can either apply different formatting directly to the text or, if these are the only hyperlinks in the document, you can modify the definition of the Hyperlink and Followed Hyperlink styles. The only drawback to this "hijacking" of hyperlinks is that the popup will contain the line "Ctrl+Click to follow link" at the bottom, and that can't be removed. If the reader does Ctrl+Click, though, the hyperlink will just go to the bookmark, which is in the same place as the hyperlink, so apparently nothing happens. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Many thanks for taking the time to respond Jay. I want the document to be
available on our intranet, so you are right that Word is probably the wrong tool to use :-) I will have a go at your suggestion though. Thanks again Wendy "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:08:01 -0700, WendyMc wrote: Hi all, I am getting to grips with Word 2007 and love it - but today have been unable to create a document I would like to. I want to have a main information document with an indicator (any type - bubble, box ect) at the side which will open more information if hovered over, then disappears again when you move the mouse away. Sense? I have a very smooth, nicely designed idea in my head (seen similar on web sites) and I am sure with the new smart art etc in 2007 I should be able to do this. I dont really want to navigate to another document using hyperlinks unless this is the only option. Any help will be much appreciated. Wendy The new SmartArt won't provide anything like what you imagine, nor will any of the new features. You should be aware that interactive things you see on web pages are unlikely to be available in Word -- this is a word processor, not a web browser (though the distinction is growing smaller with each release). The only thing in Word that reliably provides a popup when you hover over text is the ScreenTip of a hyperlink. You can arrange to make it do what you want as follows: - Select the text (word, phrase, sentence, etc.) that you want to make into a hover target. - Click Insert Bookmark and supply a name (it can be anything as long as it's unique and without spaces, and it should be recognizable). - While that text is still selected, click Insert Hyperlink. In the dialog, click the "Place in This Document" button on the left, then click the bookmark name in the middle. The "Text to display" box at the top should show the selected text; leave that as is. Click the ScreenTip button next to it, and enter the content for the popup, up to about 240 characters. Back in the document, the text will be formatted as a hyperlink, blue and underlined. If you want to change that formatting, you can either apply different formatting directly to the text or, if these are the only hyperlinks in the document, you can modify the definition of the Hyperlink and Followed Hyperlink styles. The only drawback to this "hijacking" of hyperlinks is that the popup will contain the line "Ctrl+Click to follow link" at the bottom, and that can't be removed. If the reader does Ctrl+Click, though, the hyperlink will just go to the bookmark, which is in the same place as the hyperlink, so apparently nothing happens. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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