I'm creating a form and would like the help text to be displayed by the
office assistant versus having it displayed on the status bar or by hitting
F1.

Can this be done, and, if so, how?

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I'm creating a form and would like the help text to be displayed by the
office assistant versus having it displayed on the status bar or by hitting
F1.

Can this be done, and, if so, how?

It probably should be possible, but it would require macros. You'd have to
assign a macro to the keyboard shortcut. The macro would have to determine in
which form field one is in, display the Assistant and populate the text
accordingly. If you're interested in pursuing this, it would be best to ask in
a word.vba newsgroup. Be sure to mention the version of Word, and how much
programming experience (in any environment) you have.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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