how to write my own tooltip. mouseover a word, definition shows

[Lew Hundley]

Word 2003, latest revisions.

I am trying to write a document that explains a new process my company is
implementing. There is a lot of new terminology.

I want the reader to easily be able to look up a new term while reading the
text.

In some programming I have done, some documents have a feature that, when a
word is 'mouseovered' a small popup is displayed with info in it, and when
the mouse is moved away from the word, the small popup closes. This is sort
of like a tooltip in VB, I think.

I tried to jury rig the Comments feature of collaberation, but it doesn't
work on many levels, especially the one where the reader has to have
collaberation turned on, and the proper options set. This is not desireable
in this document.

Does anyone know if Word has the capability that I am discribing?

Tks

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Lew

Word has no straight-forward way to do this. But see the following for every
way I know of that you can jury-rig Word to explain terms to people.
How to create a glossary
http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/glossary/glossary.html

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word

 

[Lew Hundley]

THANK YOU!
Option 2 on the page you directed me to is exactly what I was trying to do
and works FANTASTIC!

Lew