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[Herman_KLF]

Hi

Is it possible to create a comment in MS Word 2007 like the ones in Excel
which pops up when you hover your mouse over a certain word or sentence. For
example to explain the meaning of a word.

If yes, how?

Thanks

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello Herman

Is it possible to create a comment in MS Word 2007 like the ones in Excel
which pops up when you hover your mouse over a certain word or sentence. For
example to explain the meaning of a word.

MVP Jay Freedman has come up with an interesting solution to this task
-- an AUTOTEXTLIST field!

{ AutoTextList "display text" \s NoStyle \t "Put the help text here" }

HTH
Robert

 

[Jay Freedman]

Yes. Select the word or sentence, then on the Review tab of the ribbon,
click the New Comment button.

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Jay Freedman
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[Gordon Bentley-Mix at news.microsoft.com]

Jay,

I'm not near a Word 2007 machine to check so thought I'd ask: Can comments
in Word 2007 be configured to work like a screentip and display when
hovering? I'm only familar with comments in balloons in the margin or
(rarely) in a split screen layout.
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Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In Draft view, comments display only in ScreenTips, but they also display on
mouseover in Print Layout view (provided you have ScreenTips enabled).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

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[Gordon Bentley-Mix at news.microsoft.com]

Cool. Thanks Suzanne. I'll have to check that out sometime.
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Gordon Bentley-Mix
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[Herman_KLF]

Cool. Thanks Suzanne. I'll have to check that out sometime.
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Cheers!

Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

THanks it helped a lot. Well done