Al Edlund said:
of course a simpler method would be to just hyperlink to a word doc/ book
mark.
al
This is a good suggestion if all of the supporting text for your shapes can
be stored in Word (or another doc type). In fact, it will work if the text is
in Access as well, as you can hyperlink to an access database.
But back to documents -- one of the nice things about hyperlinking to Word
or Excel is that you can create a named location (Insert/Bookmark in Word;
Insert/Name/Define in Excel) in the target document and can create your
hyperlink directly to that named location. For example if you have the text
for 50 shapes stored in the document, the hyperlink on each shape can take
the user directly to the specific text for that shape and not just open the
document at the top. No VBA or VB.net programming required.
OTOH, you can also place the detailed text in the Miscellaneous/Comment cell
and it will pop up when the user does a mouseover of the shape. This is
probably only useful if you don't need to edit or update the detailed text
very often. BTW, if you do decide to use popup text and expect to save
drawings as web pages, refer to this post to ensure that your popup text also
appears in the web-published versions of your drawings:
http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2006/07/04/655569.aspx
