Re: Adding pop up help for definitions or terms

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From: Word Heretic (myfullname_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:31:24 +1000

G'day "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org>,

WHEW! It is such a neat feature I'd hate to see it wander off. Thanks
guys for checking this one out!

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic
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Suzanne S. Barnhill reckoned:

>Hmm. I thought I had tried that... Okay, here's the deal. ScreenTips *will*
>display, whether or not you have balloons *enabled*, provided you are in a
>view in which they are not *displayed*. Since I always work in Normal view,
>that's what I was trying, and it was in fact not working. What I have now
>figured out is that if you select text before inserting a comment, then that
>text is marked with a highlight and you get a ScreenTip when you mouse over
>it. If you insert the comment at a point, however, you don't get the
>ScreenTip. Ordinarily, this would not be an issue: if you insert a comment
>at a point in a body of text, Word selects the word before the point. I was
>trying this, however, in a document (Document1) that was empty except for
>the single space I type to keep it open. So in normal practice, comments
>would always be visible in a popup. Glad I cleared that up for my own peace
>of mind!

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