atw: Re: MS Word Help

Peter

If you read the post I sent on Friday, you'll see that your suggestion
(using hyperlinks) was one of the solutions I tried. But I didn't like the
way Word appends the text 'Ctrl + click to follow link' (or 'Click to follow
link' , depending on your options) to the screen tip. As long as this text
is there, there doesn't seem to be much point in trying to disguise the fact
that you're using hyperlinks!

If you can find a way to eliminate that blemish, please tell me!

Howard


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Bloxsom" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:05:47 +1000

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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