Create and store notes within words and paragraphs in MS Word Don Watson - Netlabs-Online.com 21.07.2006 18:23:01 I would like to see a new feature in Word (and possibly other parts of Office) that would allow the user to create and store notes within words or paragraphs. For instance working in print layout view, you type your document as normal, but rather than going in depth to describe something, you can keep the text short and to the point by using word/phrase 'Notes' which, similar to creating a hyperlink, the user would right click on the word or phrase and select 'create note'. The note that the user would then create would contain anything from text, hyperlinks, images and anything else suitable for notes. Then any reader, including the creator, could roll over the 'Note link' to display a small pop up 'hovering' window which contains the note details, relating to that word or phrase. Example. User writes about their business marketing strategy, two of the words in the paragraph are 'sales projections' which are a blue color (but prints black as normal). when the user hovers over the words 'sales projections' a small pop up appears with more details of the sales projections for that business. Therefore, rather than reading heaps of text to get the gist of the information, we can now keep the text short, to the point and remaining just as informative (in fact possibly more informative now, due to the fact that not only would the text be more condensed and easier to read (and take in information) but also more informative due to the ability of hiding notes within the text by use of mouse over links. certainly a feature I very much need. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=be50202c-2085-4ea0-9dd2-48d78bf964ff&dg=microsoft.public.word.pagelayout

Re: Create and store notes within words and paragraphs in MS Word "CyberTaz" <typegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet> 21.07.2006 19:34:36 Have you taken a look in Word, Excel or PowerPoint Help re Comments? You can also create hyperlinks to other files (or most anything else), not to mention the availability of the Document Map, Outline View, and embedded objects displayed as icons. Just keep in mind that the more of this type of thing included in a doc, the more knowledgeable the reader has to be - otherwise they miss much of the most important detail which is also going to be missing from the printed copies. -- Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac -- Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "Don Watson - Netlabs-Online.com" <Don Watson - Netlabs-Online.com[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BE50202C-2085-4EA0-9DD2-48D78BF964FF[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I would like to see a new feature in Word (and possibly other parts of > Office) that would allow the user to create and store notes within words > or > paragraphs. > > For instance working in print layout view, you type your document as > normal, > but rather than going in depth to describe something, you can keep the > text > short and to the point by using word/phrase 'Notes' which, similar to > creating a hyperlink, the user would right click on the word or phrase and > select 'create note'. The note that the user would then create would > contain > anything from text, hyperlinks, images and anything else suitable for > notes. > > Then any reader, including the creator, could roll over the 'Note link' to > display a small pop up 'hovering' window which contains the note details, > relating to that word or phrase. > > Example. User writes about their business marketing strategy, two of the > words in the paragraph are 'sales projections' which are a blue color (but > prints black as normal). when the user hovers over the words 'sales > projections' a small pop up appears with more details of the sales > projections for that business. > > Therefore, rather than reading heaps of text to get the gist of the > information, we can now keep the text short, to the point and remaining > just > as informative (in fact possibly more informative now, due to the fact > that > not only would the text be more condensed and easier to read (and take in > information) but also more informative due to the ability of hiding notes > within the text by use of mouse over links. > > certainly a feature I very much need. > > ---------------- > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow > this > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then > click "I Agree" in the message pane. > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=be50202c-2085-4ea0-9dd2-48d78bf964ff&dg=microsoft.public.word.pagelayout