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Create floating pop-ups in Word document

Often you come across webpages that incorporate pop-ups that launch when you hover your mouse on top of a hyperlink. These pop-ups may contain definitions, tips or just ads. AppScott has written about a cool technique of adding such a pop-up to Word documents.

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To create pop-ups in Word 2007, follow these steps

  • Highlight the phrase to be defined and copy it to the clipboard
  • Click the Insert tab
  • Click Bookmark in the ribbon
  • Paste the phrase in as the bookmark name, replacing any spaces with underscores
  • Click Add
  • Click Hyperlink in the ribbon
  • In the Hyperlink dialog click the Bookmark button
  • Select the bookmark you just created and click OK
  • Click the Screen Tip button and enter your definition.
  • Click OK

Now when the reader hovers the mouse over the underlined phrase the screen tip will appear. The phrase "Ctrl+click to follow link" will also appear, but by linking the phrase to the bookmark we've ensured nothing bad will happen if the reader does Ctrl+Click.

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  1. AnonymousMarch 4, 2012 at 5:04 AM

    Thank you! I have been looking for this all day.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 9, 2012 at 7:13 AM

    Thanks, altought it´s a limited option because the bookmark only allows a certain amount of words.

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  3. Jose SerrosAugust 24, 2012 at 3:38 AM

    Thank you very much. This really helps a lot. Though what I really want is a pop up image on mouseover as in web pages. so far its not possible

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  4. AnonymousDecember 6, 2012 at 5:17 AM

    Hi great piece of advice, however is there any way of adjusting the pop-up box size? I want my text to appear in distinct rows but using the Return key or the Tab has no effect, I can only seemingly type in usual sentence format.

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  5. Kaushik PatowaryDecember 6, 2012 at 9:36 AM

    There is no way to adjust the pop-up size box.

    ReplyDelete

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