Is there any way to have text pop-up on an object when the cursor moves over that object? And, if so, is there anyway to transfer this function to another file type like word or a pdf? When I share inter office visio files, all our pcs have visio, but if I try to share one of these files with a customer who does not have visio, I need to keep this pop-up function.
yes...though I forget the details...I think its available if you add actions to a shape
Icculus:
It's not very intuitive getting Visio to do hover text. On the shape's ShapeSheet, insert a User-defined Cells section, create User.visEquivTitle (not very intuitive, as I said), set the value to "Comment" (no quotes), then put your hover text in the Comment field in the Miscellaneous section. That'll do it.
As for distributing Visio diagrams to non-Visio users, I always use html. Everyone has a browser, and the hover text translates fairly well. The only drawback is that the html can get fairly large. I wrestled with this a few years back (http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php?topic=4337.msg16940#msg16940) and came up with VBA code to convert Visio to html in a single step (http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php?topic=2207.msg18990#msg18990) while removing any annoying behavior. I still use that code all the time to distribute drawings.
Hope this helps,
- Ken