You are correct this wont work in the viewer. You will need to make a
mouseover hyperlink to a ( nearly) duplicate slide with the text yopu want
and then on this slide have a mouseover transparent shape around the original
shape to hyperlink back when the mouse moves over it. This will work in the
viewer

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> In my presentation I have several mouse over to show names when the mouse
> moves over a object. I am using the hyperlink then screen tips.
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> Thanks
> Roger