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Tooltip position in Powerpoint 2019

Ramesh Subramanian 21 Reputation points
2021-03-15T05:55:10.42+00:00

When I select any text on a powerpoint document, the tooltip that automatically shows up (with formatting options) is so close to the cursor that it undoes the selection- only a position within the word is selected. This happens 4-5 times, and then the tooltip magically allows the whole word to be selected. Question: is there any way to position this tooltip (assuming that is the right description for this formatting box) slightly further away from the cursor, as it used to be in earlier versions of Powerpoint and other MSOffice documents?

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  1. Emily Hua-MSFT 27,551 Reputation points
    2021-03-15T08:48:59.357+00:00

    @Ramesh Subramanian
    Could you please take a screenshot to show the tooltip which is close to the cursor. You may use Snipping Tool, and set some seconds delay to take the screenshot.

    The following gif is the Mini toolbar prompts up automatically after selecting words.
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    If the Mini toolbar is the tooltip you said, we could not customize or set the position for it.
    You need to post a new thread on PowerPoint Uservoice forum.
    Or as a workaround, please go to File > Options > General, untick the box of "Show Mini toolbar on selection".

    Any misunderstanding, please let me know.

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  1. Ramesh Subramanian 21 Reputation points
    2021-03-15T09:00:09.813+00:00

    Thank you- I managed to remove that mini-toolbar as you describe it. And yet one may wonder why this happened in Powerpoint 2019- it does not happen in Word or Excel!

  2. Ramesh Subramanian 21 Reputation points
    2021-03-16T11:37:45.94+00:00

    Thanks for following up on the issue; here is what I found:

    1. The issue occurs with all presentations
    2. Zoom level does not affect this behaviour
    3. Same behaviour is noticed in Safe mode as well
    4. I did the Online Repair action today, and it does not seem to have changed the behaviour
    5. Surprisingly, when I select a word using the mouse BUTTONs, I do not have this behaviour; the problem seems to occur only with selections of words/ phrases using mouse double-tap... could this be some mouse driver issue, I wonder?

    Regards.