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From: Ken412 on 4 Jul 2008 10:58 I want to produce a WORD document to distribute to end users when they have problems. The document will look like a FORM. To the right of many of the fields, I want to include the text string "Help?" and if the user hovers the cursor over this text string, I want to make a small window (or text bubble) pop-up automatically (no click) in which I can supply details on how to complete that field in the form. How do I make a window/bubble automatically appear?
From: Doug Robbins - Word MVP on 4 Jul 2008 17:34 Select the word Help and insert a comment. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Ken412" <Ken412(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:999B3F03-34C0-4F8E-A1D3-733A7D9D52DD(a)microsoft.com... >I want to produce a WORD document to distribute to end users when they have > problems. The document will look like a FORM. To the right of many of > the > fields, I want to include the text string "Help?" and if the user hovers > the > cursor over this text string, I want to make a small window (or text > bubble) > pop-up automatically (no click) in which I can supply details on how to > complete that field in the form. > > How do I make a window/bubble automatically appear?
From: Ken412 on 5 Jul 2008 09:17 Hi Doug, Thanks for your response. The only "Comment" I can find is for document review. However, this doesn't work the way we want it to. Is there another type of "comment" that I have not discovered yet, that does what we want? I.e. pop up a window or bubble automatically when the end user hovers over a piece of text? Somewhat like tooltips that pop-up (when enabled) when the cursor hovers over an icon in the ribbon (where no mouse click is required). Thanks in advance for any further help. Ken "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: > Select the word Help and insert a comment. > > -- > Hope this helps. > > Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my > services on a paid consulting basis. > > Doug Robbins - Word MVP > > "Ken412" <Ken412(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:999B3F03-34C0-4F8E-A1D3-733A7D9D52DD(a)microsoft.com... > >I want to produce a WORD document to distribute to end users when they have > > problems. The document will look like a FORM. To the right of many of > > the > > fields, I want to include the text string "Help?" and if the user hovers > > the > > cursor over this text string, I want to make a small window (or text > > bubble) > > pop-up automatically (no click) in which I can supply details on how to > > complete that field in the form. > > > > How do I make a window/bubble automatically appear? > > >
From: Doug Robbins - Word MVP on 7 Jul 2008 02:44 If you do not have Balloons displayed (Tools>Options>Track Changes), then when you hover the mouse over the word in respect of which a comment has been inserted into the document, a pop up will appear to display the text of the comment. If it is for the purpose of providing help, the inclusion in the popup of the name of the person who created the comment and the data and time at which they did it should not be an issue. While you can run a macro to remove the name of the person making the comment, you cannot remove the statement of the date and time at which the comment was made. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Ken412" <Ken412(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:682FC38D-3027-4D2D-8C6B-64AA3EE370EC(a)microsoft.com... > Hi Doug, > > Thanks for your response. > > The only "Comment" I can find is for document review. However, this > doesn't > work the way we want it to. Is there another type of "comment" that I > have > not discovered yet, that does what we want? I.e. pop up a window or bubble > automatically when the end user hovers over a piece of text? Somewhat > like > tooltips that pop-up (when enabled) when the cursor hovers over an icon in > the ribbon (where no mouse click is required). > > Thanks in advance for any further help. > Ken > > "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: > >> Select the word Help and insert a comment. >> >> -- >> Hope this helps. >> >> Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my >> services on a paid consulting basis. >> >> Doug Robbins - Word MVP >> >> "Ken412" <Ken412(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:999B3F03-34C0-4F8E-A1D3-733A7D9D52DD(a)microsoft.com... >> >I want to produce a WORD document to distribute to end users when they >> >have >> > problems. The document will look like a FORM. To the right of many of >> > the >> > fields, I want to include the text string "Help?" and if the user >> > hovers >> > the >> > cursor over this text string, I want to make a small window (or text >> > bubble) >> > pop-up automatically (no click) in which I can supply details on how to >> > complete that field in the form. >> > >> > How do I make a window/bubble automatically appear? >> >> >>
From: Jay Freedman on 7 Jul 2008 09:10
There's another trick that might give slightly better results. - Insert a bookmark covering the piece of text. I haven't checked, but I think the maximum amount of text that will work for this trick is about 250 characters. - Insert a hyperlink that points to the bookmark (which will be listed in the hyperlink dialog as one of the "Places in this document"). By default the display text of the hyperlink will be the same as the text (this is where the character limit takes effect). In the Hyperlink dialog, click the ScreenTip button and enter the text for the popup. Depending on the user's settings, the bottom of the popup will say either "Click to follow link" or "Ctrl+click to follow link". At least that's less intrusive than the name/date in a comment balloon. If you do click, it will just go to the bookmark, which is the same place as the hyperlink, so it appears that nothing happens (except that the first time the link changes from blue to violet). The truth is that Microsoft has never provided any sort of custom popup help feature, so we're stuck with these imperfect workarounds. -- 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. On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:44:38 +1000, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr(a)REMOVECAPSmvps.org> wrote: >If you do not have Balloons displayed (Tools>Options>Track Changes), then >when you hover the mouse over the word in respect of which a comment has >been inserted into the document, a pop up will appear to display the text of >the comment. If it is for the purpose of providing help, the inclusion in >the popup of the name of the person who created the comment and the data and >time at which they did it should not be an issue. > >While you can run a macro to remove the name of the person making the >comment, you cannot remove the statement of the date and time at which the >comment was made. > >-- >Hope this helps. > >Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my >services on a paid consulting basis. > >Doug Robbins - Word MVP > >"Ken412" <Ken412(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >news:682FC38D-3027-4D2D-8C6B-64AA3EE370EC(a)microsoft.com... >> Hi Doug, >> >> Thanks for your response. >> >> The only "Comment" I can find is for document review. However, this >> doesn't >> work the way we want it to. Is there another type of "comment" that I >> have >> not discovered yet, that does what we want? I.e. pop up a window or bubble >> automatically when the end user hovers over a piece of text? Somewhat >> like >> tooltips that pop-up (when enabled) when the cursor hovers over an icon in >> the ribbon (where no mouse click is required). >> >> Thanks in advance for any further help. >> Ken >> >> "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: >> >>> Select the word Help and insert a comment. >>> >>> -- >>> Hope this helps. >>> >>> Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my >>> services on a paid consulting basis. >>> >>> Doug Robbins - Word MVP >>> >>> "Ken412" <Ken412(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >>> news:999B3F03-34C0-4F8E-A1D3-733A7D9D52DD(a)microsoft.com... >>> >I want to produce a WORD document to distribute to end users when they >>> >have >>> > problems. The document will look like a FORM. To the right of many of >>> > the >>> > fields, I want to include the text string "Help?" and if the user >>> > hovers >>> > the >>> > cursor over this text string, I want to make a small window (or text >>> > bubble) >>> > pop-up automatically (no click) in which I can supply details on how to >>> > complete that field in the form. >>> > >>> > How do I make a window/bubble automatically appear? >>> >>> >>> > |