How To Create Help Text and Pop-Up Hover Tip Text in a Fillable Form in MS Word

HOW TO CREATE HELP TEXT AND POP-UP HOVER TIP TEXT IN A FILLABLE FORM IN MS WORD // Learn three ways to insert helpful form field instructions for your end users. We cover 1) how to insert help text using legacy tool form fields, 2) how to edit placeholder text using content control form fields, and 3) how to create a pop-up window with tip text that shows when users mouse-over a word in your document.

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- Introduction - 00:00
- How to Insert Help Text with Legacy Tool Form Fields - 01:00
- How to Edit Placeholder Text with Content Control Form Fields - 04:23
- How to Create Pop-up Hover Tip Text in Word - 05:51
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KEYWORDS: #MSWord, #FillableForms, How To Insert Help Text in Form, How To Edit Placeholder Text in Form, How to Create a Pop-up Window with Tip Text in Word, Mouse-over Text in Word, form field instructions for users, legacy tool form fields, content control form fields, creating fillable forms in Word, how to create fillable forms in Word, advanced form tips in Word, word tips and ticks, word tutorial, word lesson, Sharon Smith HR, @SharonSmithHR
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[sandic]

This is amazing! I have a couple of extremely complicated government forms that my staff need to complete and so I've highlighted help text in red (when printing in BW it looks black) and added the help text so that they can get the information they need from within the document, rather than needing to go to a help document. THANK YOU!!!!

[rosearow]

That. was. awesome. I've been using Word since it first came out, and I've always wanted to know how to do a hovertip. Your video was easy to understand and well-explained, and as a software instructor myself, I really want to give kudos where they're deserved.

[IanBeeson-nh]

This was fantastically helpful - thank you!!!

[myrinaDM]

Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you, and thank you for the easy explanation.

[callyeberle]

This was super helpful THANK YOU! I am just wondering, if I create a pop up text from hovering over a word, how do i go back and edit that text?

[debbiejohnson]

Thanks so much for the very clear directions!!

[aishamohani]

Hi Sharon thanks for the video it did help me to create a pop up text . However when I am converting the word doc to pdf the information under Hoover menu is not displayed I. Pdf. Is it possible to help how convert the word file pdf non loosing the pop ups

[erinstehelin]

I have followed the instructions in the video and pop-up worked great. Thanks for the tip! I realized later that the pop-up text had programmed needed to be changed? How can I do this?

[zawmyotun]

Thank you very much for this precious one.

[lisatanaka]

Thanks - this was very helpful. Is there a way to edit the text created in a popup hover text? For example, the hover text was created but after review, it is suggested that additional information should be included.

[hannahtilsen]

This was very helpful. Is there a way to configure the content control properties Title and Tag bounding box so that it is longer (more characters)? I thought it might be contained in a different video. I know you can in the legacy, but am not using the legacy tools for this form.

[bobglover]

Great tut, thank you for sharing. I used the 3rd solution as trying to utilize hover on a control does not work.

[realbenedictik]

Great video Sharon. Can the hover effect appear when the Word document is converted to PDF?

[mjmillsut]

Thank you for this helpful information. do you have any tips for editing Pop-up Hover Tip Text if you want to edit after it was created.

[narendrabs]

Thank you very much for the tutorial. It was indeed very helpful. But what to do if we have to edit the changes after entering the text when hovered. For eg: I have created an AutotextList for hover. Now if I have to make changes for the text how to proceed? Please reply with a suggestion.

[chao.m]

This is extremely helpful; thank you very much. How can I make the AutoTextList (at 5:51) show up in a PDF document after I create it in Word and then print it to PDF? Or, is this not possible at the moment?

[kevinchin]

Hey Sharon,
Thanks a lot for sharing on the pop up notes; much appreciated.
I notice there is a max to the number of text that can be inserted. Is there a way to overcome this? Thanks
Best regards,
KC

[pavanpawar]

Hi thanks for so much for valuable information. I want to change font color of some of text from drop box in fillable form. please help me

[stevenfreeman]

Thank you. Numbers and letters work. But it won't let me do footnotes, the "small" numbers used for in-text citations.

[garrymontgomery]

Very informative and clear. But what are the "Styles" that could be used? For example, Can the hover over be in bold?