The help pane has clickable words to expand meaning How?

[JAnderson]

I'm writing a procedure in Word and it is long. I'd like to set it up similar
to how Microsoft's help pane set things up such as

At the Kickoff Meeting (Kickoff Meeting: Called by the PM to ...) the team
reviews the kickoff docs.

Where the words in parenthesis would be hidden and "Kickoff Meeting" would
be a hyperlink so that when you click on it, you see the definition.

Can this be done in Word? How?

thanks in advance for your help!

 

[Graham Mayor]

The short answer is no, you can't do that in Word.

You could format the hidden text as hidden and use a macro to toggle the
display of hidden text eg

Sub ShowHidden()
With ActiveWindow.View
.ShowHiddenText = Not .ShowHiddenText
End With
End Sub

OR

You could use macrobutton fields in the manner used to check boxes as
demonstrated at http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm

OR

In the case of a protected form you could selectively insert text - see
http://www.gmayor.com/SelectFile.htm


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[Gordon Bentley-Mix]

Or you could use the right tool for the job. Something like RoboHELP might
work. It produces HTML (which is what the Word help uses) as well as Word...
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Cheers!

Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

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