Can word do mouseover comment like excel

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Good morning and happy VD: In Excel, I can insert a comment into a cell, and
excel puts a little red flag in the corner of the cell, and you can mouseover
that flag and see the comment. Does anyone know how to make a "hot spot" in
word such that when you mouseover a flag, it displays some text not visible
otherwise? I already know how to insert comment in word and then do the
show-hide trick, but then you see all the junk in the entire document, which
is not the behavior we desire. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
 
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Good morning and happy VD: In Excel, I can insert a comment into a cell, and
excel puts a little red flag in the corner of the cell, and you can mouseover
that flag and see the comment. Does anyone know how to make a "hot spot" in
word such that when you mouseover a flag, it displays some text not visible
otherwise? I already know how to insert comment in word and then do the
show-hide trick, but then you see all the junk in the entire document, which
is not the behavior we desire.
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I don't know what you mean by "all the junk in the entire document", and it
would help to know which version of Word you have, but...

Essentially, a Word comment is the only choice you have. The Word object model
does not support an "mouse over" events, and Word doesn't provide anything else
that gives you a tooltip when you hover in the text.

About the only other thing I can imagine, if this is Office 2003, would be to set
it up as a SmartDocument (requires knowledge of XML and a programming language
like Visual Basic or C#). Then you could present context-sensitive information in
a task pane, at the left.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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=?Utf-8?B?Um9uIEVocmxpY2g=?= said:
Good morning and happy VD: In Excel, I can insert a comment into a cell, and
excel puts a little red flag in the corner of the cell, and you can mouseover
that flag and see the comment. Does anyone know how to make a "hot spot" in
word such that when you mouseover a flag, it displays some text not visible
otherwise? I already know how to insert comment in word and then do the
show-hide trick, but then you see all the junk in the entire document, which
is not the behavior we desire. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Ron Ehrlich
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Hey, I know this post was from an age ago...though I get what you mean.
I find MS Word very clunky as apposed to MS Excel...though I am FORCED to use it...lol

The only way I have managed to do what you have asked is by inserting a Bookmark and creating a screen tip to display a hover comment...as follows;

Click where you'd like to place your Bookmark.

Go to: Insert > Links > Bookmark - name your Bookmark, then click Add

Go to: Insert > Links > Hyperlink - in the left hand options click: Place in This Document
Click on your Bookmark, in the Input Area above, Text to display: type in what you want...

With the Bookmark still selected, click on ScreenTip...(in the upper right)
Type in your Screen Tip (Comment), click OK, click OK again (Insert Hyperlink)
...there you go.

The Text to display... will read as a Hyperlink...if this is not acceptable, highlight the word / phrase and reformat the text to the Font Colour you want and remove the underline (click it twice)...and all should be good.

When you hover over the Text to display, it will show the Screen Tip (comment)

Hope this helps...someone...works for me. Cheers :thumb:
 
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