I found several articles about adding ScreenTips in Word when I searched the Internet. All those articles are telling the same trick, which requires adding hyperlinks to bookmarks. That was exactly not what I wanted. Very lucky, I learned another way of adding tooltips, it uses Field Code: AutoTextList.
Say, let’s make a Field of type AutoTextList (in Word 2010) by the following steps:
- switch to Insert Tab
- click on Quick Parts (in the Text group) to pop the menu
- then select the Field… to open the dialog
- within Category: (All), have AutoTextList selected
- type “Hello, world!” in the New Value box
- tick the ToolTip checkbox and type “This is from mars!!” in the box
- click Ok
The result will be like this (on macOS):
If you switch to Update Field mode by Alt+F9 (Windows) or Option + F9 (macOS), you will see the underlying code like this:
{AUTOTEXTLIST \t "This is from Mars!"}
You can change the tooltip by modifying the text after \t
in the braces. Once you are done, switch back by pressing Alt+F9 (Windows) or Option + F9 (macOS).
It is an elegant way to add tooltips to text in word!