[Chris]

how can I get a pop-up comment (like you can in Excel) which comes up when
you rest the mouse pointer over it, but disappears again when you move the
mouse pointer away from it. I have Word 2007 .

[Robert M. Franz [RMF]]

Hello Chris

chris wrote:
how can I get a pop-up comment (like you can in Excel) which comes up when
you rest the mouse pointer over it, but disappears again when you move the
mouse pointer away from it. I have Word 2007 .

MVP Jay Freedman has found an interesting "hack" for this sort of thing
in Word:

quote
Every once in a while, somebody asks for a way to show some "help text"
when the mouse hovers over a word or phrase in the document. The usual
answer is to use a Comment, although that shows author and time in the
balloon. I've posted a suggestion a couple of times to use a bookmark
containing a hyperlink that points to the same bookmark (hence no
movement if clicked) and that has a tooltip containing the help text;
that also shows the extraneous "Ctrl+click to follow the link".

By some serendipity, I've just found a better solution that I haven't
seen elsewhe the field

{ AutoTextList "display text" \s NoStyle \t "Put the help text here" }

The display text is what appears in the document body. The switch \s
NoStyle works like the "NoMacro" in a MacroButton field -- it makes the
field inert, but it doesn't complain that there is no such style. The \t
switch defines the tooltip text, which will display up to 255 characters
with no unwanted text.

I've checked that it works in Word 2003 and 2007. It works if the field
is in a header/footer, and it still works in the protected text of a
protected form (but not in the header/footer of a protected form). If
you find any other restrictions, please let me know.

The field can be built from scratch (Ctrl+F9) or it can be created from
the Insert Field (or Insert Quick Parts Field) dialog. The display
text goes in the New Value box; the NoStyle switch goes in the Context
box; and the help text goes in the Tooltip box (wish that was bigger!).
/quote

HTH
Robert
--
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Thanks for passing that on, Robert. I must have missed Jay's original
posting.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Robert M. Franz [RMF]" wrote in message
...
Hello Chris

chris wrote:
how can I get a pop-up comment (like you can in Excel) which comes up
when you rest the mouse pointer over it, but disappears again when you
move the mouse pointer away from it. I have Word 2007 .

MVP Jay Freedman has found an interesting "hack" for this sort of thing in
Word:

quote
Every once in a while, somebody asks for a way to show some "help text"
when the mouse hovers over a word or phrase in the document. The usual
answer is to use a Comment, although that shows author and time in the
balloon. I've posted a suggestion a couple of times to use a bookmark
containing a hyperlink that points to the same bookmark (hence no movement
if clicked) and that has a tooltip containing the help text; that also
shows the extraneous "Ctrl+click to follow the link".

By some serendipity, I've just found a better solution that I haven't seen
elsewhe the field

{ AutoTextList "display text" \s NoStyle \t "Put the help text here" }

The display text is what appears in the document body. The switch \s
NoStyle works like the "NoMacro" in a MacroButton field -- it makes the
field inert, but it doesn't complain that there is no such style. The \t
switch defines the tooltip text, which will display up to 255 characters
with no unwanted text.

I've checked that it works in Word 2003 and 2007. It works if the field is
in a header/footer, and it still works in the protected text of a
protected form (but not in the header/footer of a protected form). If you
find any other restrictions, please let me know.

The field can be built from scratch (Ctrl+F9) or it can be created from
the Insert Field (or Insert Quick Parts Field) dialog. The display
text goes in the New Value box; the NoStyle switch goes in the Context
box; and the help text goes in the Tooltip box (wish that was bigger!).
/quote

HTH
Robert
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT |
\ / | MVP | Scientific Reports
X Against HTML | for | with Word?
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Thanks for passing that on, Robert. I must have missed Jay's original
posting.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Robert M. Franz [RMF]" wrote in message
...
Hello Chris

chris wrote:
how can I get a pop-up comment (like you can in Excel) which comes up
when you rest the mouse pointer over it, but disappears again when you
move the mouse pointer away from it. I have Word 2007 .

MVP Jay Freedman has found an interesting "hack" for this sort of thing in
Word:

quote
Every once in a while, somebody asks for a way to show some "help text"
when the mouse hovers over a word or phrase in the document. The usual
answer is to use a Comment, although that shows author and time in the
balloon. I've posted a suggestion a couple of times to use a bookmark
containing a hyperlink that points to the same bookmark (hence no movement
if clicked) and that has a tooltip containing the help text; that also
shows the extraneous "Ctrl+click to follow the link".

By some serendipity, I've just found a better solution that I haven't seen
elsewhe the field

{ AutoTextList "display text" \s NoStyle \t "Put the help text here" }

The display text is what appears in the document body. The switch \s
NoStyle works like the "NoMacro" in a MacroButton field -- it makes the
field inert, but it doesn't complain that there is no such style. The \t
switch defines the tooltip text, which will display up to 255 characters
with no unwanted text.

I've checked that it works in Word 2003 and 2007. It works if the field is
in a header/footer, and it still works in the protected text of a
protected form (but not in the header/footer of a protected form). If you
find any other restrictions, please let me know.

The field can be built from scratch (Ctrl+F9) or it can be created from
the Insert Field (or Insert Quick Parts Field) dialog. The display
text goes in the New Value box; the NoStyle switch goes in the Context
box; and the help text goes in the Tooltip box (wish that was bigger!).
/quote

HTH
Robert
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT |
\ / | MVP | Scientific Reports
X Against HTML | for | with Word?
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/

[Robert M. Franz [RMF]]

Hello Chris

chris wrote:
how can I get a pop-up comment (like you can in Excel) which comes up when
you rest the mouse pointer over it, but disappears again when you move the
mouse pointer away from it. I have Word 2007 .

MVP Jay Freedman has found an interesting "hack" for this sort of thing
in Word:

quote
Every once in a while, somebody asks for a way to show some "help text"
when the mouse hovers over a word or phrase in the document. The usual
answer is to use a Comment, although that shows author and time in the
balloon. I've posted a suggestion a couple of times to use a bookmark
containing a hyperlink that points to the same bookmark (hence no
movement if clicked) and that has a tooltip containing the help text;
that also shows the extraneous "Ctrl+click to follow the link".

By some serendipity, I've just found a better solution that I haven't
seen elsewhe the field

{ AutoTextList "display text" \s NoStyle \t "Put the help text here" }

The display text is what appears in the document body. The switch \s
NoStyle works like the "NoMacro" in a MacroButton field -- it makes the
field inert, but it doesn't complain that there is no such style. The \t
switch defines the tooltip text, which will display up to 255 characters
with no unwanted text.

I've checked that it works in Word 2003 and 2007. It works if the field
is in a header/footer, and it still works in the protected text of a
protected form (but not in the header/footer of a protected form). If
you find any other restrictions, please let me know.

The field can be built from scratch (Ctrl+F9) or it can be created from
the Insert Field (or Insert Quick Parts Field) dialog. The display
text goes in the New Value box; the NoStyle switch goes in the Context
box; and the help text goes in the Tooltip box (wish that was bigger!).
/quote

HTH
Robert
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT |
\ / | MVP | Scientific Reports
X Against HTML | for | with Word?
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/