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Lisa - 18 Sep 2003 21:12 GMT

Using Office 2002, how do you get a dialog box to pop up
when the mouse pointer was placed over a word in a word
document? For instance...if I have the word "FDA" in my
document and you place the mouse pointer over it, a dialog
box pops up with "Food and Drug Administration" to tell
you what the acrynom is. Thanks for any assistance anyone
can offer.

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Cindy Meister -WordMVP- - 20 Sep 2003 09:39 GMT

Hi Lisa,

You don't. Word doesn't have any "mouse over" type of events,
which are really Web-page stuff.

Closest you could get would be SmartTag technology, which
requires programming in VB6 or NET, or something similar. You
can research it on the MSDN site.

> Using Office 2002, how do you get a dialog box to pop up
> when the mouse pointer was placed over a word in a word
> document? For instance...if I have the word "FDA" in my
> document and you place the mouse pointer over it, a dialog
> box pops up with "Food and Drug Administration" to tell
> you what the acrynom is.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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