Hover Help-->Insert Screen Tip

[erik_gregory]

Hello and thanks for any help in advance.

I'm on Windows XP, Office 2003.

I've been tasked to add "bubble help" to some Excel cells so when users
"hover" over the cell, they get some written instructions. The only tool I'm
aware of to do this is to make a hyperlink of the cell and use the Screen Tip
feature. The problem I'm encountering is the Screen Tip feature allows for a
very small number of characters and I need more space. Any way to increase
that? Or any other method of including "hover/bubble" help in Excel. Please
advise with thanks!

Erik

 

[Gary''s Student]

Click on a cell and:

Insert > Comment

Then type away.
Then click elsewhere to close the Comment

If you mouse-over the cell with the small red marker, the comment will appear.

 

[erik_gregory]

Yep, totally works. Need to resize the comment box to fit extra large
quantities of text, but it totally works.

With Thanks.