Then run the macro RemoveScreenTipFromText. To remove a screen tip, select the screen tip hyperlink or just click in it. In the example illustrated below, a screen tip with two lines of text is created.
If you wish to break your screen tip text into multiple lines, follow the instructions in the dialog box. You can change the shading color in the macro if you wish. The normal Hyperlink style will automatically be removed from the hyperlink so that the user can distinguish screen tip hyperlinks from ordinary hyperlinks. Shading will be applied to the hyperlinked text in order to make it easy for the user to identify text with screen tips. The text you entered will now appear in a screen tip when a user hovers the mouse over the text. In the dialog box that opens, enter the text you want to appear in the screen tip. To add a screen tip hyperlink, select the relevant text, run the macro AddScreenTipToText. Alternatively, you can assign the macros to a toolbar (Word 2003 and earlier versions) or the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) (Word 2007 and later versions). You will find an introduction and a link to that add-in below.įor easy access, you can assign keyboard shortcuts to the macros. Instead of installing the macro solution available on this page you may be interested in the ready-to-use add-in DocTools ScreenTipManager. One macro lets you add screen tips hyperlinks in a structured way and another one lets you easily remove a screen tip hyperlink again if you wish. Here you will find a set of macros that automate the process. However, this includes a number of steps: You must select text, add a bookmark with an appropriate name, create a hyperlink and enter the screen tip text, and format the text. You can create such "screen tips hyperlinks" manually. Word has no functionality specifically for that but you can make use of the hyperlink functionality and obtain something similar. For example, such screen tips may be used to show definitions of terms. small boxes with information that appear when you hover the mouse over a text like here. Many users want to be able to make small screen tips in Word that work like the screen tips known from Websites, i.e.
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