change hover-over cursor appearance

[drivingme crazy]

I'm working with a lengthy procedure document that's linked to numerous
templates. We're resigned to the fact that you can't hyperlink the templates
directly and create a new document based on the template. So, we settled on
creating command buttons which *look* like hyperlinks, i.e., blue underlined
text. Problem is, when you cursor over these command buttons, you get an
I-beam cursor, not the "hand" cursor people expect to see when hovering over
a hyperlink. Is there a way to change the cursor appearance to a hand when
(and only when...) hovering over a command button???

TIA!!

Cal Peters
Grandville, MI

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Cal,

What version of Word are you using, are these links within a Word document to Word templates or... (what is the process that are
trying to achieve)?

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I'm working with a lengthy procedure document that's linked to numerous
templates. We're resigned to the fact that you can't hyperlink the templates
directly and create a new document based on the template. So, we settled on
creating command buttons which *look* like hyperlinks, i.e., blue underlined
text. Problem is, when you cursor over these command buttons, you get an
I-beam cursor, not the "hand" cursor people expect to see when hovering over
a hyperlink. Is there a way to change the cursor appearance to a hand when
(and only when...) hovering over a command button???

TIA!!

Cal Peters
Grandville, MI>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[drivingme crazy]

Hi Bob,
sorry...it's Word 2002 SP3. Yes it is a Word document that links to Word
templates. My original thought was to do the procedures doc as an html doc
and use hyperlinks to the templates, but hyperlinks open the templates
directly, and you can't directly create a new document based on the template,
thus my strategy shifted to doing it as a Word doc with macro buttons which
create the new docs based on the templates referenced. Hope that makes
sense...

But I'd still like to mimic the behavior of a hyperlink in that when the
user hovers the cursor over one of the macro "buttons" (appearing as
hyperlink text) the cursor appearance changes to a hand.

Is there a (hopefully simple) way to do this??

Thanks!!

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Cal,

Actually you can create a new document from a template via a hyperlink but you have to 'cheat' a bit on what you link 'through' to
get *to* the template
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278627/en-us?FR=1

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Hi Bob,
sorry...it's Word 2002 SP3. Yes it is a Word document that links to Word
templates. My original thought was to do the procedures doc as an html doc
and use hyperlinks to the templates, but hyperlinks open the templates
directly, and you can't directly create a new document based on the template,
thus my strategy shifted to doing it as a Word doc with macro buttons which
create the new docs based on the templates referenced. Hope that makes
sense...

But I'd still like to mimic the behavior of a hyperlink in that when the
user hovers the cursor over one of the macro "buttons" (appearing as
hyperlink text) the cursor appearance changes to a hand.

Is there a (hopefully simple) way to do this??

Thanks!! >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[drivingme crazy]

Hi, Bob

thanks for the tip/KB....We did look at that....but viewed it as a "6 of one
half dozen of the other" situation. Our main procedures document is already
in word, so we wouldn't have to convert it to html and retrain everyone to
use IE to see/use the procedures. Text macro buttons aren't the end of the
world....and they do work with minimal effort to make them. I'd just like to
change the hover-over cursor appearance if I could....

Is it possible??

Thanks.

cal