You know that hold your mouse over a word & you see something else? Can you do that in word or excell or a PDF?

[KatyMac]

Or something?

I want to give people an easy document which they can get more info from if they want

Or is it a complicated internet thingie?

I know in Excel you can add like a piece of text to a cell, the cell gets a little coloured corner which if the user hovers over it pops up a box with the extra text in.

I'd be surprised if you can't do the same in Word.

I'll have a play

For Excel

Right click on a cell

Use insert Comment.

I think for a pdf you will need Acrobat

No I'm not getting what I want

I guess I was too ambitious

Any ideas anyone?

In word you can do references or footnotes - so you can put more info elsewhere in the document or the bottom of the same page

Or in both Word and Excel and can imbed Hyperlinks which can link to other documents, pictures, webpages, other places in the same document etc.

Any help?

this may help for Word
www.ehow.com/way_5164861_microsoft-word-screen-tips.html

Oh - this looks good

I'll play again

So if you click on a day it shows you details of that days menu & recipes but within another document

That might work - I was kind of hoping I could show the details in the screen tip bit

Thanks for your help

You can show the details within the screen tip but I think you are limited as to how it looks.

First create the bookmark then the hyperlink. Then in the hyperlink screen there is a screen tip button at the top right hand side. If you click this you can type in what you like. This is what will appear when you hover your mouse over the word. but it doesn't give you the option to format the text in any way so you just have to accept how it appears.

Hope you get it sorted....there is nothing more frustrating than knowing how you wan't something to look and not being able to get it quite right :)

Thanks - yes I can put words but no pictures

I think I will do this months without & have a go with next months

Have you considered making a straightforward HTML document? That way you get all the good things like pop ups and link tips and yet have a document that's very portable and doesn't require the right version of Word to work correctly.

Do you mean Tool Tips?

You can put html links in a word doc too.

Do I know how to do that?

I am quite thick x100

Sorry ChateauRouge I think I mean screen tips

I thought they were known as tool tips but some internet searches called them screen tips :)

On Word 07 they are called screen tip (I think - I really don't even know if we are talking about the same things)