help text in forms

[Guest]

I am trying to create a survey form with multiple choice radio buttons. I
want to add descriptive text that appears when you float your cursor over the
button (like that for a toolbar icon). I tried to "add help text" from the
Checkbox Form Field Options, then I protected the document, but no text shows
up. I even tried setting it up as a PFKey (although that's not really what I
want to do) and it didn't work either. I know I've done this before but I
cannot remember how I did it. Why doesn't anything happen when I use the "add
help text" option?

 

[Anne Troy]

It appears in the Status bar. Did you look?
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[Jezebel]

Unfortunately, people filling in forms don't notice the status bar, either.

 

[Guest]

OK, thanks Anne. I see what you mean but that's really not what I had in mind
at all. Did the older version of Word float the text over the button? Like I
said I know I've done this in the past. I can't imagine that this would be
considered an enhancement!

 

[Jay Freedman]

In your original post you mentioned option buttons and check box form
fields. They're completely different -- option buttons are ActiveX
controls from the Control Toolbox, as there's no such thing as an
option button form field.

Neither of them has "float over text" help (Microsoft calls it
ToolTips), and never have. In fact, the ActiveX controls have no
custom help facility whatever.

The only places you'll find custom tooltips are in buttons on toolbars
and in controls in UserForms (custom dialogs that you create in the
VBA editor). Both of these need VBA to set them. For a Control
(button) on a CommandBar (toolbar), you assign a string to its
..ToolTipText property. For an option button or check box on a
UserForm, you set its .ControlTipText property. (The difference in
names is one of those little inconsistencies that *will* drive you
crazy...)