Can I place a mouse-over caption onto a picture in MS Word (2003)

[Head Cook]

I'm not sure if what I am trying to do is even possible. Is there a way of
puting a caption onto a picture so that when the cursor passes over the image
the caption appears? Similar to what happens on web page.

Any help would be most welcome.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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I'm not sure if what I am trying to do is even possible. Is there a way of
puting a caption onto a picture so that when the cursor passes over the image
the caption appears? Similar to what happens on web page.

Not in Word, no. The closest (only) thing in Word that can display text when you
"mouse over" is a COMMENT. Assuming you insert the pictures in-line with the
text you could probably select them, then Insert/Comment.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Head Cook]

Thanks for your help Cindy. Do you know if mouse-over captions could be
applied in any other MS applications?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Web authoring applications such as FrontPage will of course offer this
functionality. Another way to do it in Word (albeit not a very satisfactory
one) is to bookmark the graphic, then select the graphic and insert a
hyperlink to that graphic. The graphic itself becomes the "Text to display"
for the hyperlink, and you can insert your "mouseover text" as the
ScreenTip. The drawback is that there will be extraneous text ("Ctrl+click
to follow link") added to your caption.

Also, for either this or the Comment method to work, users must have
ScreenTips enabled.

 

[Head Cook]

Many thanks Suzanne. I'd considered this route as a potential solution to
what I was trying to do but had discounted it as much to complex for the
simple task I had in mind. Both of the answers I've received so far only
prove to me that I'm probably using the wrong application for the task in
hand. This gives me the opportunity to put my financial director under some
pressure to buy me some more appropriate software! So thanks to all.