When you rest your mouse pointer on some items in Microsoft Word such as a comments (comment: A note or annotation that an author or reviewer adds to a document. Microsoft Word displays the comment in a balloon in the margin of the document or in the Reviewing Pane.), tracked changes (tracked change: A mark that shows where a deletion, insertion, or other editing change has been made in a document.), hyperlinks (hyperlink: Colored and underlined text or a graphic that you click to go to a file, a location in a file, a Web page on the World Wide Web, or a Web page on an intranet. Hyperlinks can also go to newsgroups and to Gopher, Telnet, and FTP sites.), or toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, press ALT and then SHIFT+F10.) buttons, you can view information about them in ScreenTips (ScreenTip: A short description that appears when the user holds the mouse pointer over an object, such as a button or hyperlink.).
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On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the View tab.
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Under Show, select or clear the ScreenTips check box.
For toolbar buttons
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On the Tools menu, click Customize, and then click the Options tab.
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Select or clear the Show ScreenTips on toolbars check box.
Tip
You can also display a shortcut key combination for the toolbar button. To do this, select the Show shortcut keys in ScreenTips check box.
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