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Comment balloons during mouse-over
In Word 2003, when I hover the mouse pointer above a comment, a
temporary balloon should pop up revealing what the comment is. Or so I seem to recall. I'm trying to get that functionality back, since I'm trying to maximum document viewing space by deliberately turned off review markups normally shown in the right margin, and I've turned off the reviewing pane. Is there a switch buried deep in the bowels of the menu system for getting back the temporary hover bubbles? |
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Comment balloons during mouse-over
If you have balloons disabled and ScreenTips enabled (Tools | Options |
View), you should be seeing the popups (even if you have balloons enabled, you should see popups in Normal view). There is a bug in Word 2002 that causes footnote ScreenTips not to be displayed; see "WD2002: Footnote ScreenTip May Not Be Displayed" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318865. I don't know whether the same would affect comments or not, but I think the bug was fixed in Word 2003, so it shouldn't be an issue in any case. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Paul" wrote in message ... In Word 2003, when I hover the mouse pointer above a comment, a temporary balloon should pop up revealing what the comment is. Or so I seem to recall. I'm trying to get that functionality back, since I'm trying to maximum document viewing space by deliberately turned off review markups normally shown in the right margin, and I've turned off the reviewing pane. Is there a switch buried deep in the bowels of the menu system for getting back the temporary hover bubbles? |
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If you're testing the same way I did, I can tell you why it doesn't work: If
you insert a comment without selecting any text, then you won't see a popup; as long as you have at least one character selected, you will see a popup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Selecting "ScreenTips" on the View tab of Tools | Options should work--or so I thought. When I test it, it doesn't work... :-( -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Paul" wrote in message ... In Word 2003, when I hover the mouse pointer above a comment, a temporary balloon should pop up revealing what the comment is. Or so I seem to recall. I'm trying to get that functionality back, since I'm trying to maximum document viewing space by deliberately turned off review markups normally shown in the right margin, and I've turned off the reviewing pane. Is there a switch buried deep in the bowels of the menu system for getting back the temporary hover bubbles? |
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Selecting "ScreenTips" on the View tab of Tools | Options should work--or so I
thought. When I test it, it doesn't work... :-( -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Paul" wrote in message ... In Word 2003, when I hover the mouse pointer above a comment, a temporary balloon should pop up revealing what the comment is. Or so I seem to recall. I'm trying to get that functionality back, since I'm trying to maximum document viewing space by deliberately turned off review markups normally shown in the right margin, and I've turned off the reviewing pane. Is there a switch buried deep in the bowels of the menu system for getting back the temporary hover bubbles? |
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OK, it will work if you have added your comment to a selection (that is, if you
selected text first). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Selecting "ScreenTips" on the View tab of Tools | Options should work--or so I thought. When I test it, it doesn't work... :-( -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Paul" wrote in message ... In Word 2003, when I hover the mouse pointer above a comment, a temporary balloon should pop up revealing what the comment is. Or so I seem to recall. I'm trying to get that functionality back, since I'm trying to maximum document viewing space by deliberately turned off review markups normally shown in the right margin, and I've turned off the reviewing pane. Is there a switch buried deep in the bowels of the menu system for getting back the temporary hover bubbles? |
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It works for me without selecting any text. Weird. Thanks!
On Jun 18, 1:47*pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote: OK, it will work if you have added your comment to a selection (that is, if you selected text first). "Stefan Blom" wrote: Selecting "ScreenTips" on the View tab of Tools | Options should work--or so I thought. When I test it, it doesn't work... *:-( "Paul" wrote: In Word 2003, when I hover the mouse pointer above a comment, a temporary balloon should pop up revealing what the comment is. *Or so I seem to recall. I'm trying to get that functionality back, since I'm trying to maximum document viewing space by deliberately turned off review markups normally shown in the right margin, and I've turned off the reviewing pane. Is there a switch buried deep in the bowels of the menu system for getting back the temporary hover bubbles? |
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That *is* weird. Anyway, I'm glad you got it sorted.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Paul" wrote in message ... It works for me without selecting any text. Weird. Thanks! On Jun 18, 1:47 pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote: OK, it will work if you have added your comment to a selection (that is, if you selected text first). "Stefan Blom" wrote: Selecting "ScreenTips" on the View tab of Tools | Options should work--or so I thought. When I test it, it doesn't work... :-( "Paul" wrote: In Word 2003, when I hover the mouse pointer above a comment, a temporary balloon should pop up revealing what the comment is. Or so I seem to recall. I'm trying to get that functionality back, since I'm trying to maximum document viewing space by deliberately turned off review markups normally shown in the right margin, and I've turned off the reviewing pane. Is there a switch buried deep in the bowels of the menu system for getting back the temporary hover bubbles? |
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Well, thank you for confirming this. I found it out on my own because I couldn't
see your post until just recently. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... If you're testing the same way I did, I can tell you why it doesn't work: If you insert a comment without selecting any text, then you won't see a popup; as long as you have at least one character selected, you will see a popup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Selecting "ScreenTips" on the View tab of Tools | Options should work--or so I thought. When I test it, it doesn't work... :-( -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Paul" wrote in message ... In Word 2003, when I hover the mouse pointer above a comment, a temporary balloon should pop up revealing what the comment is. Or so I seem to recall. I'm trying to get that functionality back, since I'm trying to maximum document viewing space by deliberately turned off review markups normally shown in the right margin, and I've turned off the reviewing pane. Is there a switch buried deep in the bowels of the menu system for getting back the temporary hover bubbles? |
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I think maybe at some point in the past I determined that the only place a
point insertion doesn't work is at the very beginning of a document. So if you are testing in an empty document, you would get that result. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... That *is* weird. Anyway, I'm glad you got it sorted. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Paul" wrote in message ... It works for me without selecting any text. Weird. Thanks! On Jun 18, 1:47 pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote: OK, it will work if you have added your comment to a selection (that is, if you selected text first). "Stefan Blom" wrote: Selecting "ScreenTips" on the View tab of Tools | Options should work--or so I thought. When I test it, it doesn't work... :-( "Paul" wrote: In Word 2003, when I hover the mouse pointer above a comment, a temporary balloon should pop up revealing what the comment is. Or so I seem to recall. I'm trying to get that functionality back, since I'm trying to maximum document viewing space by deliberately turned off review markups normally shown in the right margin, and I've turned off the reviewing pane. Is there a switch buried deep in the bowels of the menu system for getting back the temporary hover bubbles? |
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That certainly explains things. :-)
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I think maybe at some point in the past I determined that the only place a point insertion doesn't work is at the very beginning of a document. So if you are testing in an empty document, you would get that result. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... That *is* weird. Anyway, I'm glad you got it sorted. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Paul" wrote in message ... It works for me without selecting any text. Weird. Thanks! On Jun 18, 1:47 pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote: OK, it will work if you have added your comment to a selection (that is, if you selected text first). "Stefan Blom" wrote: Selecting "ScreenTips" on the View tab of Tools | Options should work--or so I thought. When I test it, it doesn't work... :-( "Paul" wrote: In Word 2003, when I hover the mouse pointer above a comment, a temporary balloon should pop up revealing what the comment is. Or so I seem to recall. I'm trying to get that functionality back, since I'm trying to maximum document viewing space by deliberately turned off review markups normally shown in the right margin, and I've turned off the reviewing pane. Is there a switch buried deep in the bowels of the menu system for getting back the temporary hover bubbles? |
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Screentips seems to work for comments on my Word 2003...
On Jun 18, 1:37*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you have balloons disabled and ScreenTips enabled (Tools | Options | View), you should be seeing the popups (even if you have balloons enabled, you should see popups in Normal view). There is a bug in Word 2002 that causes footnote ScreenTips not to be displayed; see "WD2002: Footnote ScreenTip May Not Be Displayed" athttp://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318865. I don't know whether the same would affect comments or not, but I think the bug was fixed in Word 2003, so it shouldn't be an issue in any case. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Paul" wrote in message ... In Word 2003, when I hover the mouse pointer above a comment, a temporary balloon should pop up revealing what the comment is. *Or so I seem to recall. I'm trying to get that functionality back, since I'm trying to maximum document viewing space by deliberately turned off review markups normally shown in the right margin, and I've turned off the reviewing pane. Is there a switch buried deep in the bowels of the menu system for getting back the temporary hover bubbles? |
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Did you read the rest of the thread?
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via news.eternal-september.org) "Frank" wrote in message ... Screentips seems to work for comments on my Word 2003... On Jun 18, 1:37 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you have balloons disabled and ScreenTips enabled (Tools | Options | View), you should be seeing the popups (even if you have balloons enabled, you should see popups in Normal view). There is a bug in Word 2002 that causes footnote ScreenTips not to be displayed; see "WD2002: Footnote ScreenTip May Not Be Displayed" athttp://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318865. I don't know whether the same would affect comments or not, but I think the bug was fixed in Word 2003, so it shouldn't be an issue in any case. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Paul" wrote in message ... In Word 2003, when I hover the mouse pointer above a comment, a temporary balloon should pop up revealing what the comment is. Or so I seem to recall. I'm trying to get that functionality back, since I'm trying to maximum document viewing space by deliberately turned off review markups normally shown in the right margin, and I've turned off the reviewing pane. Is there a switch buried deep in the bowels of the menu system for getting back the temporary hover bubbles? |
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