Track Changes - Mousing over changed text

[Guest]

How do I see which changes were made by which author (also known as a
reviewer) when I mouse over the changed text?

Usually I hover the mouse over the tracked change and a ScreenTip appears
that shows the name of the author. How do I turn this feature? PS: I am
not referring to the "balloons".

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Do you have "ScreenTips" checked on the View tab of Tools | Options?

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[Guest]

I just blasted those bone heads for not haveing the mouseover feature. It
was not broken. Thanks abunch for the tip. How did you find the totally non
obvious fix that was not otherwise covered.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Anything that pops up (in Word) when you mouse over it is a ScreenTip of
some sort or other. The ones in documents are controlled by the check box in
Tools | Options | View; the ones on toolbar are controlled by the check box
in Tools | Customize | Options.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

I have another question about the screen tips. In Track Changes, the screen
tips reproduce the text one can already see on the screen, obliterating the
view of the document. It is distracting to constantly have to move the
mouse. I want to see who made the changes and when, so I do not want to turn
screen tips off. However, I do not want the useless reproduction of inserted
text shown on the tip. Is there a way to direct what information the tip
shows? I am using Office 2003.

Larry

 

[Guest]

Thanks Suzanne, I was having the same trouble as the original poster. Your
answer was just perfect!!!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The whole idea of newsgroups is to provide answers that will help more than
the single person who asked the question; you've just proved that sometimes
it actually works!

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[rebane]

I am really dense. I have Office Home and Student 2007. For the life of me,
I cannot find Tools|Options and the View Tab. I find Screen Tips under the
Top Options and have selected "Show feature descriptions in Screen Tips."
That is not it. I find no other screen tips to check.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, it helps when you tell us what version you have because everything is
in a different place in Word 2007. There are actually a couple of settings
in Word 2007 that refer to ScreenTips. The other one is Office Button | Word
Options | Display: "Show document tooltips on hover."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[rebane]

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Well, it helps when you tell us what version you have because everything is
in a different place in Word 2007. There are actually a couple of settings
in Word 2007 that refer to ScreenTips. The other one is Office Button | Word
Options | Display: "Show document tooltips on hover."

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Thanks for the response. There must be something else. The "Office Button
| Word
Options | Display: "Show document tooltips on hover" is checked, but
hovering does not work.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you can see the balloons, you won't see the ScreenTips. You will see
ScreenTips in Draft view (as opposed to Print Layout) or if you have
balloons disabled.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[rebane]

Thanks! You have been more than patient. I'll get on the bottom of this in
a week or so when I meet up with a writer who has the same version, but his
"howers" work. Have a great New Year, and thanks for your help.

Henn

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If he's a serious writer, more concerned about words than layout, he may
well be using Draft view. If he were an impecunious writer (or one who saw
no need to upgrade), he might be using a pre-2002 version of Word that
doesn't have balloons at all, but since you specify that he is using "the
same version," I'll take your word for it.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org