Excel+Word 10.1.5 toolbar icons: no Entourage-like interp?

[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

In Entourage X, if I point the mouse at an icon in a toolbar and pause, a
few words appear that interpret what the tool is or does. But if I try to
do the same in Excel 10.1.5 or Word 10.1.5, I see nothing.

Is there something one can see while working in either Word or Excel, that
makes clear what the default toolbar icons do?

Or is there a chart that one can print showing the default toolbar icons
with one or couple-word interpretations?

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

In Entourage X, if I point the mouse at an icon in a toolbar and pause, a
few words appear that interpret what the tool is or does. But if I try to
do the same in Excel 10.1.5 or Word 10.1.5, I see nothing.

Is there something one can see while working in either Word or Excel, that
makes clear what the default toolbar icons do?

Or is there a chart that one can print showing the default toolbar icons
with one or couple-word interpretations?

Hmm...I could have sworn that both XL and Word had a Show Tooltips
setting in the Preferences/General tab, but they're not there.

You can reset tooltips to show by typing OPT-F11 to open the Visual
Basic Editor, choosing View/Immediate Window, and typing or pasting

CommandBars.DisplayTooltips = True

followed by Return.

This is an office-wide setting (except Entourage), so it will turn
on tooltips in both XL and Word, regardless which application you
use.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Hmm...I could have sworn that both XL and Word had a Show Tooltips
setting in the Preferences/General tab, but they're not there.

In Word 2001, show Screentips is under the View tab in Prefs. Anything
there in X?
DM

 

[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

In Word 2001, show Screentips is under the View tab in Prefs. Anything
there in X? DM

In Word 10.1.5, Show Screen Tips "displays reviewing comments in yellow
popup boxes when you rest pointer above comments . . . ." Apparently, it's
used by people whose drafts are submitted to others for review comments. It
was checked by default. I just unchecked it.

I couldn't find anything else in View preferences in 10.1.5 that came close.
Norm

 

[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

Lovely! That works!

If Microsoft developers can't create such a preference in the next version
after 10.1.5, at the least they should include something in the Help program
or FAQs cross-indexed under toolbar, icons, tips, tool, tooltips.

I vaguely remember something in past versions of Office for Macintosh.

Thank you so very much for your very prompt and exceptionally thoughtful
counsel. I went through hours of frustration searching Microsoft's
webpages and other websites on Excel.

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

In Word 2001, show Screentips is under the View tab in Prefs. Anything
there in X?

Different beastie. However, the right answer is that Tools/Customize
has a checkbox for "Show ScreenTips on Toolbars". It sets the
Office-wide (well, Word and XL at least) tooltip setting.

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

Hmm...I could have sworn that both XL and Word had a Show Tooltips
setting in the Preferences/General tab, but they're not there.

DUH!

Tools/Customize, check the Show ScreenTips on Toolbars checkbox.

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

If Microsoft developers can't create such a preference in the next version
after 10.1.5, at the least they should include something in the Help program
or FAQs cross-indexed under toolbar, icons, tips, tool, tooltips.

I vaguely remember something in past versions of Office for Macintosh.

Thank you so very much for your very prompt and exceptionally thoughtful
counsel. I went through hours of frustration searching Microsoft's
webpages and other websites on Excel.

Just for the archives, note my other post in which I acknowledge my
airheadedness in fortgetting that this preference could be set using
Tools/Customize and checking the Show ScreenTips on Toolbars
checkbox.

Why it's not in the Preferences, I don't know, but it is
customizable.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Different beastie. However, the right answer is that Tools/Customize
has a checkbox for "Show ScreenTips on Toolbars". It sets the
Office-wide (well, Word and XL at least) tooltip setting.

Thank you! I only just turned that on the other day, but forgot where I
found it.

Dayo