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Add Extended Text to a ScreenTip

Anonymous
2014-01-17T00:17:59+00:00

It appears that the ScreenTip field has a limited number of characters that can be entered.  Is there a way to expand this?  I have more to say in the tip than the ScreenTip is allowing.

Thank you

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-01-17T22:53:31+00:00

    Glenn,

    That I'm afraid (or at least AFAIK)  is insurmountable.  I think the .screentip property has a hard character limit of 255 characters.

    Thanks for your comment.  When you do something long enough some good can come for it ;-)

    Thank you for you service bubble head!

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  2. Charles Kenyon 167.4K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2020-03-02T13:22:14+00:00

    See Screen Tips in Word - smart and easy with DocTools ScreenTipManager .

    This is a paid program with a free trial.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-01-17T02:16:37+00:00

    Glenn,

    Ok.  You can do it with a vba procedure:

    Sub ScratchMacro0()

    'A basic Word macro coded by Greg Maxey

    Dim oHL As Hyperlink

    Set oHL = ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks(1)

    oHL.ScreenTip = "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, " & _

                     "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, " & _

                     "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, " & _

                     "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, " & _

                     "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and blah ad nausea"

    End Sub

    See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/installing_employing_macros.html for instructions to employ the VBA code provided above.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-01-17T01:58:01+00:00

    Sorry, this is the bookmark/hyperlink ScreenTip that appears when you hover over a word. - Thanks

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-01-17T00:35:33+00:00

    What screentip? Are you referring to Ribbon control screentips?  If so then use supertip.

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