Green Help Pop-Up Text

[Kat Brown]

How can I create pop-up text that appears when you click on a word? I like
the green text that shows up on the same line v.s. the hyperlinked screen tip
method.
I have only seen the example that I write of in MS Office's Help.
When you click on the original highlighted word, green text appears that
defines the original word. If you re-click the original highlighted word the
green text goes away and the remaining document falls back into place.

Can anyone tell me how to do that?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The Help is HTML, and that is an HTML-only feature.

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Hi Kat

As Suzanne says, the expansion in the Help is a Help trick (dynamic HTML).
If you are desperate to do something similar within Word, you could probably
use the techniques discussed in
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Toggle_Data_Display.htm . For your situation the
basic idea would be to make your clickable word a MacroButton field, and use
the underlying macro to hide/show the explanation text by making its
character style hidden/not hidden.

If this is a document intended for distribution and use as online
assistance, I'd advise using genuine Help or Web pages, though, rather than
sending out .doc files. There are a huge number of tools available to create
online documents, some of which use Word at the editing stage. These will
have their own methods of creating pop-up or expanding text in the generated
Help files.