Mouse Hover In Outlook

[Mike]

Hi,

I would l like to set up a glossary of acronyms in Microsoft Outlook.

So for example, if someone sends me an email with the word "VBA", and "VBA"
was in my list of glossary terms, then once I place my mouse over the word, a
pop up box or comment with "VBA: Visual Basic for Applications" will be
shown.

The glossary can be hard-coded into vba if there is no other way.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Boy, I wouldn't want to write that one in VBA code, or in any language.

You'd most likely need to write a Windows message handler and hook into all
Windows messages from the mouse. You'd have to get the mouse coordinates,
match those somehow to the Outlook window and the text under the mouse
cursor, figure out what the text was and then display your dialog window.
That's really almost completely a Win32 API program and not really suitable
for VBA coding.