Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007, 2010, and 2013. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: Turning Off ScreenTips.
ScreenTips are the small yellow boxes that appear as you position the mouse pointer over a ribbon tool or over another control on the Word program window. Some people find these ScreenTips distracting, so Microsoft provided a way for you to control whether they are displayed or not.
To turn off ScreenTips, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The General options of the Word Options dialog box.
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2015-04-15 15:55:42
This tip did not remove the boxes that pop up when I'm using 'track changes.' (The other occasions where these pop-ups occur are helpful (e.g, the URL for links embedded in text), but in Track Changes, the box pops up obscuring the text I'm trying to read, saying exactly what the text I'm reading says. Who programs these 'features' anyway?
Is there another way to turn these off?
I can send a screenshot if it's not clear what I'm talking about.
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