Pop-up help on selected fields in a form

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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.
 
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
 
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