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Disable screen tips (yellow boxes) in Word

You may notice when working in Word that occassionally you will get little yellow boxes appearing on your screen in response to either hovering your cursor over a button, or typing particular words or numbers into your document. These are called screen tips.

If you find the screen tips distracting, you can disable them by:

1. Going to Tools - Options.

2. Selecting the View tab.

3. Removing the tick to the 'ScreenTips' check box under the 'Show' section.

4. Clicking OK.

Added by Amanda on 26th November 2006

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