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I am wondering if there is a way to hyperlink to a picture (such as a visual
reference of a tool) and allow the reader to have a preview box (much like a screen tip) appear, so that the reader doesn't need to actually goto the hyperlink destination. Essentially, I would like to hover my mouse over a tool name and have a thumbnail picture of the tool float above the tool name. Is this possible? |
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 15:21:00 -0800, SESmith
wrote: I am wondering if there is a way to hyperlink to a picture (such as a visual reference of a tool) and allow the reader to have a preview box (much like a screen tip) appear, so that the reader doesn't need to actually goto the hyperlink destination. Essentially, I would like to hover my mouse over a tool name and have a thumbnail picture of the tool float above the tool name. Is this possible? Not literally, no. The mouseover (technically, the tooltip) of a hyperlink in Word is limited to text only. If the target of the hyperlink is to a picture that will never change, then take a thumbnail of the picture (using a graphics editor such as IrfanView, www.irfanview.com, make a reduced copy about 32 pixels on a side) and insert the thumbnail into the Word document. With the thumbnail selected, press Ctrl+K to open the Hyperlink dialog and fill in the address and the display text (which is the tooltip). The picture itself will be the clickable hyperlink. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Thanks Jay. That really helped. Do you know if the feature I am looking for
is available in any other program? For instance, if I made the document into a webpage or converted it to PDF. Thanks again. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 15:21:00 -0800, SESmith wrote: I am wondering if there is a way to hyperlink to a picture (such as a visual reference of a tool) and allow the reader to have a preview box (much like a screen tip) appear, so that the reader doesn't need to actually goto the hyperlink destination. Essentially, I would like to hover my mouse over a tool name and have a thumbnail picture of the tool float above the tool name. Is this possible? Not literally, no. The mouseover (technically, the tooltip) of a hyperlink in Word is limited to text only. If the target of the hyperlink is to a picture that will never change, then take a thumbnail of the picture (using a graphics editor such as IrfanView, www.irfanview.com, make a reduced copy about 32 pixels on a side) and insert the thumbnail into the Word document. With the thumbnail selected, press Ctrl+K to open the Hyperlink dialog and fill in the address and the display text (which is the tooltip). The picture itself will be the clickable hyperlink. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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If there is such a program, I've never seen it.
SESmith wrote: Thanks Jay. That really helped. Do you know if the feature I am looking for is available in any other program? For instance, if I made the document into a webpage or converted it to PDF. Thanks again. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 15:21:00 -0800, SESmith wrote: I am wondering if there is a way to hyperlink to a picture (such as a visual reference of a tool) and allow the reader to have a preview box (much like a screen tip) appear, so that the reader doesn't need to actually goto the hyperlink destination. Essentially, I would like to hover my mouse over a tool name and have a thumbnail picture of the tool float above the tool name. Is this possible? Not literally, no. The mouseover (technically, the tooltip) of a hyperlink in Word is limited to text only. If the target of the hyperlink is to a picture that will never change, then take a thumbnail of the picture (using a graphics editor such as IrfanView, www.irfanview.com, make a reduced copy about 32 pixels on a side) and insert the thumbnail into the Word document. With the thumbnail selected, press Ctrl+K to open the Hyperlink dialog and fill in the address and the display text (which is the tooltip). The picture itself will be the clickable hyperlink. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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