Pop-up Windows in Word

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 are not available in Word 97, having been introduced in Word 2000.) These ScreenTips can be created as follows:

1. Click your mouse on the Insert Hyperlink tool on the toolbar, or choose Hyperlink from the Insert menu. Word displays the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.
2. Click on the ScreenTip button. Word displays the Set Hyperlink ScreenTip dialog box. (Click here to see a related figure.)
3. In the ScreenTip Text box, enter the text you want to use for your ScreenTip.
4. Click your mouse on OK to close the dialog box.
5. Set any other hyperlink values, as desired.
6. When completed, click on OK.

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.