Screentips

[Guest]

Is there any way of increasing the number of charcters one is allowed to use
in a screentip? I'm using them, linked to bookmarks, to annotate poems for
my students - it would be a great help if I cpuld say more about key
words/phrases...

Hope someone can help!

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I don't think so, but I suggest that Word's Comment function would make more
sense for this use, anyhow. Comments will appear in screentips, or show in
the margins, or in a pane at the bottom--your students can choose. And it
will be less work--you won't have to create the bookmark. Depending on the
version, highlight or brackets will alert the student there's a Comment
there.

Use Insert | Comment.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your response!
I have used the Comment function but - I think - it makes the whole page
quite messy and obscured. It also means (doesn't it?) that the comments are
there right from the start so that there's no sense of progression - I often
provide the answers to one screentip question later in the same doc...
But maybe I've missed somehing - is there a way of revealing/activation
coments one by one?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Not one by one. If you use Normal View, or turn off the "display in
balloons" setting, all you will see are the little brackets and people will
have to mouseover to get screentips. However, you cannot force others to do
that, or not easily.

Back to your original method:
If you are discussing phrases, hyperlink each word individually and have a
multi-part message.

Test whether you can type a long paragraph and copy it (control-c) into the
hyperlink dialog. It's possible that screentips themselves have a limit,
but very likely that the dialog text field has a limit.

And actually, I just realized I don't understand what you are doing. Can
you say exactly how you link the screentip to a *bookmark*?

New approach:
Use Footnotes. These will also show screentips (at least in Normal View) on
mouseover.