Pop-up help on selected fields in a form

[Guest]

I need to have the capability of having a pop-up or some type of help message
to explain various fields in a protected form document. Hyperlinks do not
work once you protect the form to allow the form boxes to work.

 

[Graham Mayor]

You can either add help text to the form field definition, which will be
displayed in the Word status bar, or you can add a pop-up message run from a
macro on entry to the field. The best bet would be the former with an
autonew macro in the form template to pop up a box referring users to the
status bar.

That macro might be something like

Sub AutoNew()
Set Balloon = Assistant.NewBalloon
With Balloon
.Text = "Refer to status line at bottom of screen for field entry
details"
.Button = msoButtonSetOK
.Animation = msoAnimationBeginSpeaking
.Show
End With
End Sub

or without the help assistant

Sub AutoNew()
MsgBox "Refer to status line at bottom of screen for field entry details", _
vbInformation
End Sub

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm