How can I create pop-up text that appears when you click on a word? I like
the green text that shows up on the same line v.s. the hyperlinked screen tip
method.
I have only seen the example that I write of in MS Office's Help.
When you click on the original highlighted word, green text appears that
defines the original word. If you re-click the original highlighted word the
green text goes away and the remaining document falls back into place.

Can anyone tell me how to do that?

The Help is HTML, and that is an HTML-only feature.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Kat Brown" wrote in message
...
How can I create pop-up text that appears when you click on a word? I like
the green text that shows up on the same line v.s. the hyperlinked screen
tip
method.
I have only seen the example that I write of in MS Office's Help.
When you click on the original highlighted word, green text appears that
defines the original word. If you re-click the original highlighted word
the
green text goes away and the remaining document falls back into place.

Can anyone tell me how to do that?

Hi Kat

As Suzanne says, the expansion in the Help is a Help trick (dynamic HTML).
If you are desperate to do something similar within Word, you could probably
use the techniques discussed in
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Toggle_Data_Display.htm . For your situation the
basic idea would be to make your clickable word a MacroButton field, and use
the underlying macro to hide/show the explanation text by making its
character style hidden/not hidden.

If this is a document intended for distribution and use as online
assistance, I'd advise using genuine Help or Web pages, though, rather than
sending out .doc files. There are a huge number of tools available to create
online documents, some of which use Word at the editing stage. These will
have their own methods of creating pop-up or expanding text in the generated
Help files.

--
Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
The Help is HTML, and that is an HTML-only feature.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"Kat Brown" wrote in message
...
How can I create pop-up text that appears when you click on a word? I
like
the green text that shows up on the same line v.s. the hyperlinked screen
tip
method.
I have only seen the example that I write of in MS Office's Help.
When you click on the original highlighted word, green text appears that
defines the original word. If you re-click the original highlighted word
the
green text goes away and the remaining document falls back into place.

Can anyone tell me how to do that?