atw: Re: MS Word Help

Here's another approach, Andrew. Use customised hyperlinking. You can
easily attach tooltips to hyperlinked text in Word.

I'm using Word 2000 but I think the hyperlinks feature works similarly in
later versions. Here's how to do it.

Select the word or phrase, right-click, and choose Hyperlink from the
context menu. In the dialog box, insert your tooltip text via the
ScreenTip button.

You'll need to put something in as a dummy hyperlink destination, where
it says "Type the file or Web page name" or you won't be able to close
the dialog. I suggest just typing in the filename of the present
document.

If you don't like these special "links" looking like regular hyperlinks,
select them individually and apply manual formatting (change colour,
remove underlines, etc). This would be a way to distinguish between these
"tip" links and any standard hyperlinks you might want to use on the same
document. If you don't need standard hyperlinks as well, just edit the
"Hyperlink" style to get the tip links looking the way you want.

Peter
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----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Jeffery
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 1:08 PM
Subject: atw: Re: MS Word Help


Thanks Peter - but that doesnt seem to want to work on this version of
Word.  Any other ideas out there...please!!!!

Andrew


From: "Peter Bloxsom" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: atw: Re: MS Word Help
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:20:12 +1000


Andrew, with the word or phrase selected, Insert-->Comment. In my version
of word the phrase gets highlighted, and the comment is displayed when
you hover (not click) on it.

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Peter Bloxsom
http://www.netpublish.net
peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Jeffery
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:53 AM
Subject: atw: MS Word Help


All
Just have a mental blank here!!
I need to know the name of the links that you can add to a word/phrase in
a Word doc (NOT a hyperlink!!) that display a text box/bubble that
details the meaning of the word/phrase when you click it.  The text
box/bubble appears beside the word on the same page and does not take you
to a different area.
Details on how to do this would be appreciated too!
Thanks

Andrew
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