Hello again,

I'm not really following what it is that needs to be displayed in something
like a tool tip that can't be done similarly (well not quite the same) with
a dropdown.

If the dropdown approach is not viable, and the comment not ideal (or how
about a callout) it should be possible to display a form next to the cell
that has the mouse hovering over it (not necessarily the selected cell),
with whatever info on the form as relates to the cell.

The modeless form could be made to look like a tooltip, and disappear when
the mouse moves again. Tricky and a bit of work but feasible.

Regards,
Peter T

"Phil H." wrote in message
...
Hi Again Roger - we met in London 2006 at the Excel conference, I'm the
fly
fisherman - gave thought to staying at your place in spring '07.

Will try the comment idea - seems totally feasible. Is there a way to
eliminate the red comment symbol in the upper right corner? Might
require
some sort of search macro to identify cells with comments and, say,
temporarily apply a background color. These symbols could make the
worksheet
very "busy," adding confusion to beginning users.

Basically, my purpose is to give users an on-screen definition of a code
(there are many columns with similar situations), without having to search
elsewhere for the information. Again, I'm dealing with 89 columns and
8000+
rows (admittedly way too much), so my current task is to make the
worksheet a
user-friendly environment - which currently it is not. The user's task is
to
go through the 722,000+ cells and clean out errors - where incompatible
codes
exist (on a row). I'm putting together a code matrix to set the rules
for
the exercise. Will probably be looking for help next week after I receive
the latest spreadsheet. So, for now users are filtering and with a very
short lead time for scrub completion, on-screen helps seem my only
contribution. If you have any other ideas, let me know. Meanwhile, I'll
try
the comments macro. This is a neat idea for other worksheets - will put
it
in my library. Thanks for the help, Roger.


"Roger Govier" wrote:

Hi Phil

Following on from Peter's idea, I have played about with adding comments
to
the cell.
If you have a List (in my case on Sheet2 column A) for your DV items,
with a
list of descriptions for those items along side in column B (Sheet2),
then
the following event code on your sheet with the DV (Sheet1), will insert
the
comment to the cell depending upon what has been selected.
Hovering over the cell will cause the Comment to be displayed.

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(By Val Target As Range)
Dim messg As String
If Not Intersect(Target, Range("A:A")) Is Nothing Then
messg = WorksheetFunction.Index(Sheets("Sheet2").Range("B: B"), _
WorksheetFunction.Match(Target.Value,
Sheets("Sheet2"). _
Range("A:A"), 0))
On Error Resume Next
Target.Cells.AddComment
Target.Cells.Comment.Visible = False
Target.Cells.Comment.Text Text:="" & Chr(10) & messg
On Error GoTo 0
End If
End Sub

Obviously, change the ranges to suit your situation.

--
Regards
Roger Govier

"Phil H." wrote in message
...
Peter, I think "List" may be the idea. I will play with the
validation
idea. In the meantime, I was wondering if we can go behind the scenes
and
add a second column to the filter dropdown list. This would be
perfect,
if
doable, because of the many many columns with codes. The further I get
into
this, the more I think I will press for converting this to Access -
after
the
current situation passes.

"Peter T" wrote:

Have you considered using Data Validation / List in all your input
cells,
where the list refers to your codes (could be a ref or a named range).

In the next column you could have a lookup formula that returns the
description based on the code in the input cell (or blank if code cell
is
empty).

Regards,
Peter T


"Phil H." wrote in message
...
Thanks, Pete - not encouraging at this point. "Normal" users will
not
be
able to remember 365 codes. Can you think of another way to
approach
to
the
problem? Could a lookup be used somehow? Or maybe a dropdown in
the
header
row?
"Peter T" wrote:

Tricky, not impossible but effectively not viable.

There are no directly trappable mouse over or hover events in
cells.
Using a
timer could periodically check mouse coordinates every (say) 0.2
sec'
and
if
same conclude the mouse is stationary (could sub class windows
mouse
events
but not stable in VBA).

Having determined the mouse is not moving next task is to relate
mouse
coordinates to cell, it is doable with one of three distinct
approaches
(not
sure about xl2007) but none are straightforward.

Then the final task is to display something like a tooltip, rather
than a
form or some other object. I'm almost sure there is no way to do
that
purely
with VBA.

Of course, could do almost anything in a selection change event
(except
the
tool tip, temporary dynamic comment perhaps).

Regards,
Peter T


"Phil H." wrote in message
...
MS Excel 2003, Workbook name "2008 Results."

In worksheet named "Inventory," Column M has alpha-numeric
codes -
the
worksheet contains 8000+ rows.

In worksheet named "Function Codes," 365 a-n codes are held in
column
B,
with their corresponding text descriptions in column C.

What is needed: when the user hovers the cursor over a cell in
"Inventory"
column M, Excel finds the a-n code in worksheet "Function Codes"
column
B,
and displays the corresponding text from column C the same way as
in
a
hyperlink "Screen Tip."

Finally, the user must be able to click on a column M cell, make
an
a-n
code
change, and the new text description appear when hovering over
the
changed
cell (after the correction has been entered).

What would the macro code be and where would it be placed?