Re: Question about hover tips

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From: Jonathan West (jwest_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/06/05 

Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 02:08:30 -0000

"Barney Byrd" <Barney_Byrd@fictitious.org> wrote in message
news:343kfsF44tasvU1@individual.net...
>
> I can't find what to call these so I'm referring to them as hover tips.
> I'm referring to the messages that appear when I run my cursor over the
> toolbar icons. For example, when I just placed my cursor over the "New
> Post" icon in Outlook Express, "Write Message" appeared.
>
> My question is whether VBA supports such a functionality on userforms.
> I'd like a brief explanatory message to pop up when a user runs their
> cursor over a check box option.
>
>

Yes, Userforms and their controls support this. Simply set a string for the
ControlTipText property of the control 

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