I'm using Excel 2000.

On a spreadsheet that I'm working on, I've inserted a
hyperlink into each of a small number of cells.

These hyperlinks work fine, but I don't quite like the way
the screen tips for the hyperlinks keep popping up (they
obscure important surrounding text).

Is there any way I can stop screen tips from being
displayed for Excel hyperlinks?

Thanks in advance,
Sarah.

I don't know a way to do this.

Hi Sarah

In the Insert Hyperlink dialog, far up, there's a field "Text to be
displayed" and to its right a button "Screen tips" (? I have a translated
version here). Click that and enter a single space or something very short.
The popup will now show that instead. Not gone, but considerably smaller.

I can write a macro to do this on multiple cells if you have too many to do
it manually.
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HTH. Best wishes Harald
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I'm using Excel 2000.

On a spreadsheet that I'm working on, I've inserted a
hyperlink into each of a small number of cells.

These hyperlinks work fine, but I don't quite like the way
the screen tips for the hyperlinks keep popping up (they
obscure important surrounding text).

Is there any way I can stop screen tips from being
displayed for Excel hyperlinks?

Thanks in advance,
Sarah.

Hello, Harald.

Thank you very much for your advice (and good advice at
that).

I had already tried manually (Insert - Hyperlink - Text
to display) and programatically (via the ScreenTip
property) setting the screen tip for each hyperlink to "",
in the hope that my use of a null string might be
interpreted by Excel/VBA as a request to not display a
screen tip.

Unfortunately, screen tips were still displayed for the
hyperlinks, albeit of minimum width (the screen tips
looked like blank yellow squares!).

I thereafter tried using " " (a single blank) instead of
the null string. Once again, screen tips were displayed
for the hyperlinks (the screen tips were blank and
slightly wider).

I had also tried (in desperation) the following,
unsuccessfully:

(a) Application.ShowToolTips = False
(b) Tools - Customize - Options - Clear the check box
titled "Show ScreenTips on toolbars".

Approaches (a) and (b) failed, not surprisingly, because
they related to pop-up tips for toolbars rather than for
hyperlinks.

Whether or not I ultimately find a solution, I do
appreciate your taking the time to assist (as well as your
offer of writing a macro for me) .. Thanks!

Sarah.

Alas, neither do I.

Thanks anyway Edwin, for trying.

-----Original Message-----
I don't know a way to do this.
.

Harald ..

In my previous post (addressed to you), I mistakenly
claimed that my using the null string for the hyperlink's
screen tip resulted in a blank screen tip being displayed.

In actual fact, my use of the null string resulted in the
screen tip displaying the hyperlink's target address (a
large screen tip that obscured quite a lot of the
information surrounding the cell that contained the
hyperlink!).

It was my use of a single blank for the screen tip
property, that resulted in a blank screen tip of minimum
width.

Sorry, for the error in recall.

Thanks again,
Sarah.

-----Original Message-----
Hello, Harald.

Thank you very much for your advice (and good advice at
that).

I had already tried manually (Insert - Hyperlink - Text
to display) and programatically (via the ScreenTip
property) setting the screen tip for each hyperlink
to "",
in the hope that my use of a null string might be
interpreted by Excel/VBA as a request to not display a
screen tip.

Unfortunately, screen tips were still displayed for the
hyperlinks, albeit of minimum width (the screen tips
looked like blank yellow squares!).

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