Green links

[Woody Splawn]

I have noticed that when going to a Microsoft site for help that oft times
you will get a help file that has text in it that is green. When you click
on the green text it opens up a little area that gives a further explanation
of the text clicked on. You can open up these explanations or close them.

I'm just wondering if there is an equivilent in WORD. Can I do this in a
WORD document? Today I had a document that had the word algorithm in it.
It would have been nice if I could have made that word green so that when
clicked on, an explanation of the word could be seen.

I suppose I could have created a footnote instead, and for the time being
this is what I am doing but if WORD offers an alternative (like the green
text I've talked about) I would like to be aware of it. If it can be done,
how do you do it in WORD or is there another alternative?

Thank You

Using WORD 2003

 

[Beth Melton]

Not really. You can do something similar using hyperlinks or VBA but
neither will be identical to what you see in Help.

This feature has been requested in the past - perhaps it wouldn't hurt
to post this as a Suggestion on:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...&cr=US&dg=microsoft.public.word.docmanagement

I know I'd vote on it.

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[Woody Splawn]

I discovered that foot notes are somewhat similar in that after you post the
footnote, just moving over the item opens a tooltip, which is convenient.