Display Pop-Up Text In PowerPoint (Screen Tip Mouseover)

See how to display pop-up text in PowerPoint by hovering your mouse cursor over an object.

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In this Microsoft PowerPoint Tutorial, you will learn how to use the screen tip functionality of hyperlinks in PowerPoint, to display text onscreen during your presentation when you hover your mouse over an object. Although there are a number of things you can do with hyperlinks to add navigational features to your PowerPoint presentations, you can also just use them to display what is known as "rollover or mouseover text" onscreen during a PowerPoint presentation. And this is especially a neat trick when combined with hide and appear animations within your layouts.

A couple of quick notes to remember when using hyperlinks to display rollover text onscreen in PowerPoint:
#1: You are limited to 256 characters (including spaces), which is approximately 48 words

#2: You can only view the rollover text in the presentation mode of your PowerPoint deck (it will not display in the normal view of your deck)

#3: You want to link the hyperlink to the slide on which you want to display the rollover text so that if you click the link, you remain on the same slide (unless you want to hyperlink somewhere else within your document)

Shortcuts covered in this PowerPoint tutorial:
-- CTRL + K - with either text or an object selected, opens the insert hyperlink dialog box
-- SHIFT + F5 - starts your presentation mode from the current slide you are on

To learn how to create the hide and appear animations I used in this PowerPoint tutorial, see Neil's YouTube Video "Microsoft PowerPoint: Show and Hide with Animation:

[workinprogress]

I have spent an hour looking for a tutorial on how to do this and yours was the only one I found. Thank you.

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[王楠-uz]

Thanks men. I was trying to do this on my presentation and couldn't figure it out until I saw your video.

[AISTvideoChallenge]

Great shortcut feature! How do you adjust the text size of a Screen Tip?

[Nutsandboltsspeedtraining]

This is a great hyperlink trick for showing additional information onscreen during a presentation. You are limited to 256 characters of text, but it can be extremely effective when combined with appear and disappear animations for an onscreen graphic.

Enjoy!

[MinutenBuch]

Thanks for the tutorial. How i can change the font size of the pop-up text? If i present on a beamer, the pop-up text is unfortunately to small and not readable.

[Doesntmatterok]

Where have I been all these years!! Thank you so much for sharing this. Is there a way to make the pop up box visible to the audience? I did a test with my coworker but she couldn’t see the pop up box.

[rebeccadevlin]

This might be a stupid question, but do you add shapes, and then hyperlink specifically to that shape, or can you for example have a map, and then hover over a point to bring up the hyperlink? Envisaging many on a page...

[anubhavsahni]

Awesome.. u made it so simple and easy.. thank you!

[JerroldLynch]

I've noticed that PowerPoint has 2 main ways of triggering actions for objects, that's with mouse click or mouse over. is it possible to trigger actions with letters on your keyboard, For example if i press "A' I trigger an action on a certain object. The reason i'm asking is because i want to trigger actions simultaneously. for example pressing "A" and "B" at the same time to trigger two or more actions at the same time.

[vinoangel]

Wow.. Thanks a lot for the simple explanation & demo. It really saved my time and effort. Thanks a ton to the team.

[famkis]

Awesome! I will use this to show a screen info tip on some text on the slide. Is there a way to not show that text blue and underlined?

[JyotiSingh-bzzs]

how did you get the interactive map in there? Did you use tableau ?

[learnspreadsheets]

This is cool, but is there a way to change the text size?

[MikeBirkhead]

I've been using the self-referencing link for hover over text for quite a while and I have several powerpoints with this added.
-- However, recently I have shared those powerpoints with several other people.
--Still works for everyone using PC, but the hover-over effect doesn't work on MAC. Is there a quick fix? Thanks!

[ronakjoshi]

Speechless video..thanks so so muuuuch❤👍 unforgettable help u had done 4 me

[yatharthahuja]

Really informative and helpful video!
Is it possible to include more text or text image combination in the pop-up?

[DrKentVC]

Sweet! And the hyperlink does not have to be functional (it can point back to right where you are) to produce the mouseover text.

[andrzejwojewodzki]

Nice tutorial. I made step by step, but no text came... I do use PP2010, able to programing VBA but want to use simplest way. I found the trick usefull but after I created the hyperlink to present slide and the text tip, there is no interaction (pop-up) during presentation :(

[mikerushing]

Very nice and easy to understand. Thanks