atw: Re: MS Word Help

Sorry, Howard, I missed or forgot that. As Bruce has said, Word 2000
doesn't append any text to your tooltips. The "enhancement" with later
versions seems like yet another example of Microsoft adding unnecessary
features.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Silcock" <howard.silcock@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Austechwriter" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 12:03 PM
Subject: 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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