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Some documents I saw years ago have a feature that, when a word ismouseovereda small popup is displayed with info in it, and when the mouse is moved away from the word, the small popup closes. Maybe it worked with javascript or VB but the content was unformatted (screentip).
The most intersting thing I saw is by creating layers but I couldn't find how to do it in winword.

I don't necessarily need to insert bold/underlined text like on the following HTML document screenshot, but as this is for displaying some piece of code, inserted newlines/carriage returns are important.from physics.se So how I can create a formatted tooltip, or at least a tooltip where I would be able to insert newlines?

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Bit of an ugly hack, and you definately can do better, but you'd probably want to create a hyperlink (to a bookmark, tho being lazy, I just linked it to the top).

Not being able to create newlines is probably by design, since this is sort of meant to imitate the mouseover you do on menu items or websites.

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  • Yes, this what I mentioned in my question (screentip). If you have code your readers will have to read it in one liner... :-( I'm far to create the same kind of tool tip of the picture in my question (I recognize this is not the thing I need to do)
    – user2284570
    Feb 12, 2015 at 13:05
  • Is it possible to only provide a simple screentip? I mean, no underline, no link, to jumping to another section of the document whatsoever. Only a highlighted text that shows a tip on mouse-hover.
    – Saeed Neamati
    Jul 21, 2015 at 8:21
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1)Press Ctrl+F9

2)Inside the brackets pasteAutoTextList "word seen" \s No Style \t "balloon word"

3)Replace word seen and balloon word

4)Press F9 and the main word will disappear (with the keyboard cursor inside the brackets)

5)Press Ctrl+F9 to hide/unhide the code and leave the main word alone

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  • How do I put images in such tooltips?
    – user2284570
    Apr 4, 2020 at 19:33

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