Mouseover text for a picture?

[Rick B]

Hello. I have a screenprint that I have pasted into a document. I would
like for the users of this document to be able to hold the mouse over
various areas of the screen print and have text display to explain that
portion of the screen. Alternatively, they could click on an area and have
text appear. Since this is a screen print with about 50 fields, we want to
have about 50 messages tied to fifty different areas on the screen.

I tried copying small squares of the screen print and pasting them into Word
bit by bit. This ended up with about 40 squares making up my picture. I
then tried to tie comments or code to each square, but could not figure out
how to do so.

Does anyone have any advise here?

I need an interactive help screen where users can click a portion of a
screenprint and get more info.

Thanks!

Rick B

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Rick,

I can't think of a more tedious and error-prone method to achieve what you
want. Word is definitely the wrong tool for this application.

What you're trying to do is called a client-side image map, and it's a
standard part of HTML. Here's a link to a tutorial:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/cs_imap.html

And here's a link to a $10 editor specifically for doing this kind of work:
http://www.boutell.com/mapedit/