Ron
Run the edit on Kelly's site:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Line 11: Disable Balloon Tips or Disable All
See the top of the page for info on running the edit.
I would run the Disable All which takes care of your problem.
Note: this also disables the callouts in Explorer.
Maybe best to create a Restore Point before running disableall.reg file just
in case you don't like it.
Or edit the *.reg file as you see fit.
Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
On Wed, 30 May 2007 15:21:03 -0700, ExcelRon
wrote:
I'd like to disable the pop up feature that Excel (and Word, and probably all
Microsoft products) uses when looking for files under the File-Open commands.
For example, I click on the open file icon and get a list of files in a
folder. As I'm scrolling down the list to look for the file I want, my view
is constantly obscured because Pop up information appears for every file my
cursor is over. It gives me info on Title, Author, Date, and Size of the
file.
I find this very distracting, and would really like to turn this feature
off. Does anyone know how?
Thanks,
Ron