[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is a Windows setting. In Windows Explorer, choose Tools | Folder
Options | View and clear the check box for "Show pop-up description for
folder and desktop items."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Bugsy" wrote in message
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When I scroll down a list of documents in "File- Open" the pop-up
information "balloons" become a nuisance.

Is there a way to turn them off? I have read and re-read "help", but
apparently do not understand what I'm reading.

Thanks.

CRT