create a text box pop up?

[a.fox]

I have used vba with other Office programs, but not with Word. I want
to create a glossary of words and phrases for study notes so I can have
a definition pop up when the cursor is over the word. I don't want to
have an individual document for each item, and the comment thing I
tried seems a little intrusive. I'd just like have a simple box with
the definition pop up. Should I be looking at vba or is there a better
way of doing it within word?

Thanks in advance

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I don't think that there is anyway of getting anything other than a comment
to be displayed simply by mousing over a word.

Probably equally intrusive would be to have the definitions bookmarked in
another documnet and use hyperlinks to take you to the definition by
control+left click on the link.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Greg Maxey]

While likely not worth the effort, you might consider some of the
toggle data display methods here:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Toggle_Data_Display.htm