Screen Tips

[dk]

I am trying to eliminate the dependency on hyperlinks linking terms to the
glossary. Because with the new version of Acrobat 8 out the Previous View and
Next View buttons don't always display. Then when the user clicks on the
term, they are sent to the glossary and don't know how to get back where they
were.

My solution was to hover over the term and use Screen Tips to display the
definition. This option works great in Word 2002, but when I PDF the
document, the Screen Tips disappear. I still want to have to glossary but
without the links to it.

Another option is to hyperlink the term to the glossary, as we have always
done, then hyperlink back to the term in the paragraph of where you were. So
each word (1-in the paragraph your reading; 2-term by the definition in the
glossary). But that would be a work around, but yet it would work.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
dk

 

[Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com]

Sounds to me like the limitation is with PDF rather than Word. Perhaps
somebody at Adobe will have an idea of how to address the problem.

However, I suppose your proposed workaround would probably be acceptable.
The only drawbacks that I can see are:

* You would have to find some mechanism for providing the hyperlink back
from the glossary to the term in the body of the document. I suppose you
could put a bookmark around the term and then insert a cross-reference to
this bookmark in the glossary, which I assume is how you're providing the
link from the term to the glossary in the first place. Maintenance could
become a problem in this instance because you would essentially have a
bookmark around a cross-reference to a bookmark around a cross-reference -
but it should work.

* I don't know how you would handle the situtation if a term appeared more
than once in the body of the document. At least with the 'Previous View'
button in Acrobat Reader (like the 'Back' button on the Web toolbar in Word),
the software will take you back to where you started from. However, if you
link to the glossary from two or more different points in the document,
there's no way to specify in the hyperlink in the glossary which starting
point to go back to; cross-references are pretty much 1-to-1. Maybe you only
provide the link to the glossary for the first instance of the term...?
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Cheers!

Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

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