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Word does not provide any intrinsic "pop-up" feature that results in a small window containing information when you click on a word or a link. The closest that can be found in Word is the ScreenTip feature, which displays a small ToolTip-like "hint" when you hover the mouse pointer over a hyperlink. ScreenTips can be created as follows:
Figure 1. The Set Hyperlink ScreenTip dialog box.
Other than the ScreenTips, there is nothing else close to a "pop-up" feature in Word. One could be easily created, however, if you create a macro that displays information using the MsgBox function, and then you associate that macro with a MACROBUTTON field. When the user clicks on the button created by the field, the message in the macro is displayed in a dialog box.
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2015-02-16 13:10:18
SM
These instructions do not work on Word 2010. Do you have to highlight the words you want the pop-up associated with first? It would be nice to know how it is supposed to look once you follow the instructions. The instructions are not complete. What other hyperlink values could you be referring to? I didn't add any because I don't know what I don't know. Could that be why it didn't work?
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