Thursday, February 15, 2007

Tool tips

What are tool tips?
How to disable tool tips in Microsoft Excel?
How to enable tool tips in Microsoft Excel?

Definition
Tool tips are small graphical interfaces that shows up text (rarely images) when the mouse pointers hover them. Tool tips show a box with text when you hover the mouse on them. Tool tips provide important information and they are quite useful in giving us quick information about a tool bar or a command without activating them. It must be noted that tool tips just show information and do not activate a command nor they trigger any action. Tool tips often instruct on the command name or give a brief description about the action a command would trigger if it is clicked.Just move around your mouse on the tool bars to have a look at the tool tips

Tool tips in Microsoft Excel (and almost all other applications) show a short description of what the tool bars would do when clicked. Descriptions such as New,Open, Save indicate that clicking the button would create a new file, open a file, save a file. In fact, they provide quick reference to the actions that would be performed by the tool bar buttons.

To enable tool tips in Microsoft Excel (and almost all other applications)

  • RIGHT CLICK on the Worksheet Menu Bar (The menu bar at the top containing File, Edit, View menus)
  • Select CUSTOMIZE and select the OPTIONS tab
  • Now check the SHOW SCREEN TIPS ON TOOL BARS option.
  • Close the dialog box using the CLOSE button
By default, tool tips are enabled in Microsoft Excel unless you disable it. Most users don't disable it as it is quite useful and provides quick handy information.

To disable tool tips just follow the above steps and uncheck the SHOW SCREEN TIPS ON TOOL BARS option.

Step by step instruction
  • RIGHT CLICK on the Worksheet Menu Bar (The menu bar at the top containing File, Edit, View menus)
  • Select CUSTOMIZE and select the OPTIONS tab
  • Now check the SHOW SCREEN TIPS ON TOOL BARS option.
  • Close the dialog box using the CLOSE button.

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