Dialog box or screen tip box

[Lisa]

Using Office 2002, how do you get a dialog box to pop up
when the mouse pointer was placed over a word in a word
document? For instance...if I have the word "FDA" in my
document and you place the mouse pointer over it, a dialog
box pops up with "Food and Drug Administration" to tell
you what the acrynom is. Thanks for any assistance anyone
can offer.

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Lisa,

You don't. Word doesn't have any "mouse over" type of events,
which are really Web-page stuff.

Closest you could get would be SmartTag technology, which
requires programming in VB6 or NET, or something similar. You
can research it on the MSDN site.

Using Office 2002, how do you get a dialog box to pop up
when the mouse pointer was placed over a word in a word
document? For instance...if I have the word "FDA" in my
document and you place the mouse pointer over it, a dialog
box pops up with "Food and Drug Administration" to tell
you what the acrynom is.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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