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Pop-Up Note
Is there any way to have a note pop up when the mouse hovers over a phrase,
or when a user enters a table? Basically, I have a word document (Word 2003) that is not locked but is used by others like a form. It is intentionally not locked and it is not an option to lock it. Some people would like instructions to pop up when the user enters the table or when the header for the table is passed over. Similar, if you will, to the "comment" function in Excel. Not at all similar to the "comment" function in Word, because the comment always show up there and even prints out. I have seen that there is a way to write a macro for a pop-up note to appear when the document is opened. Anyway to modify that so that it appears when a table is selected? Thanks, in advance, for any help. |
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One way to do this is to hyperlink the text to itself. Remove the Hyperlink
character style and use the ScreenTip text for your popup. Users will have to have ScreenTips enabled, of course. -- 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. "hnyb1" wrote in message ... Is there any way to have a note pop up when the mouse hovers over a phrase, or when a user enters a table? Basically, I have a word document (Word 2003) that is not locked but is used by others like a form. It is intentionally not locked and it is not an option to lock it. Some people would like instructions to pop up when the user enters the table or when the header for the table is passed over. Similar, if you will, to the "comment" function in Excel. Not at all similar to the "comment" function in Word, because the comment always show up there and even prints out. I have seen that there is a way to write a macro for a pop-up note to appear when the document is opened. Anyway to modify that so that it appears when a table is selected? Thanks, in advance, for any help. |
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:21:03 -0800, "hnyb1"
wrote: Is there any way to have a note pop up when the mouse hovers over a phrase, or when a user enters a table? Basically, I have a word document (Word 2003) that is not locked but is used by others like a form. It is intentionally not locked and it is not an option to lock it. Some people would like instructions to pop up when the user enters the table or when the header for the table is passed over. Similar, if you will, to the "comment" function in Excel. Not at all similar to the "comment" function in Word, because the comment always show up there and even prints out. I have seen that there is a way to write a macro for a pop-up note to appear when the document is opened. Anyway to modify that so that it appears when a table is selected? Thanks, in advance, for any help. You can write an event handler macro to do this. See the post at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...d305741e6d6e5a and follow the rest of the thread for some caveats. If you want to pursue this further, please move to one of the Word VBA programming newsgroups. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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"hnyb1" wrote: Is there any way to have a note pop up when the mouse hovers over a phrase, or when a user enters a table? Basically, I have a word document (Word 2003) that is not locked but is used by others like a form. It is intentionally not locked and it is not an option to lock it. Some people would like instructions to pop up when the user enters the table or when the header for the table is passed over. Similar, if you will, to the "comment" function in Excel. Not at all similar to the "comment" function in Word, because the comment always show up there and even prints out. I have seen that there is a way to write a macro for a pop-up note to appear when the document is opened. Anyway to modify that so that it appears when a table is selected? Thanks, in advance, for any help. |
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Thanks! This was a great idea and one I'm sure I'll use again!
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: One way to do this is to hyperlink the text to itself. Remove the Hyperlink character style and use the ScreenTip text for your popup. Users will have to have ScreenTips enabled, of course. -- 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. "hnyb1" wrote in message ... Is there any way to have a note pop up when the mouse hovers over a phrase, or when a user enters a table? Basically, I have a word document (Word 2003) that is not locked but is used by others like a form. It is intentionally not locked and it is not an option to lock it. Some people would like instructions to pop up when the user enters the table or when the header for the table is passed over. Similar, if you will, to the "comment" function in Excel. Not at all similar to the "comment" function in Word, because the comment always show up there and even prints out. I have seen that there is a way to write a macro for a pop-up note to appear when the document is opened. Anyway to modify that so that it appears when a table is selected? Thanks, in advance, for any help. |
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Pop-Up Note
Hi Suzanne,
I don't suppose you could be a bit more specific could you, please? I have the same question, for a slightly different reason - I want to show references next to issues in a table, but there is more data attached to the references (time info) that doesn't fit in the table. Rather than link off hundreds of times to other parts of the document I'd like to have the time appear when you hover over the reference. If that can be done in Word and also in Acrobat output from Word, then fantastic - but I can't seem to find how to do that. Thanks for any info you can offer, Gary "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: One way to do this is to hyperlink the text to itself. Remove the Hyperlink character style and use the ScreenTip text for your popup. Users will have to have ScreenTips enabled, of course. -- 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. "hnyb1" wrote in message ... Is there any way to have a note pop up when the mouse hovers over a phrase, or when a user enters a table? Basically, I have a word document (Word 2003) that is not locked but is used by others like a form. It is intentionally not locked and it is not an option to lock it. Some people would like instructions to pop up when the user enters the table or when the header for the table is passed over. Similar, if you will, to the "comment" function in Excel. Not at all similar to the "comment" function in Word, because the comment always show up there and even prints out. I have seen that there is a way to write a macro for a pop-up note to appear when the document is opened. Anyway to modify that so that it appears when a table is selected? Thanks, in advance, for any help. |
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