From the course: Visio 2021 Essential Training (Office 2021/LTSC)

Add ScreenTips to objects

From the course: Visio 2021 Essential Training (Office 2021/LTSC)

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Add ScreenTips to objects

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- [Instructor] When you need to add additional information to certain objects in a diagram, but you don't want to clutter up your diagram with too many call-outs, another option is to use screen tips. They only appear when you hover over an object like a shape. In fact, you can even add screen tips to call-outs and that's what we're going to do in this movie with our AR 30 onboarding diagram 0305. If you're catching up, we just added a call-out. Maybe we don't want it to get too big and full of information. So we add a screen tip to it instead. That means going to the shape or in this case, the call-out and clicking once to select it. Now with the insert tab still selected up here on the ribbon, we go over to the text group and that's where we find screen tip. Go ahead and click that. Opens up a dialogue where we can type in any additional information we need to add and this information will only appear when we hover over that shape with our mouse pointer. So let's add something like online form can be printed, filled out and submitted manually. It's a lot of information we don't necessarily want showing up in the call-out, but good information that can be provided by simply hovering over this call-out shape. So let's click OK. And click in the background. Now, when we move over our shapes and get to this call-out and hover over it, you can see the screen tip pop up with that additional information. Now, if at any time you want to remove a screen tip, you just go back to the shape by selecting it with a click, go up to screen tip, you'll see that information already selected or highlighted, and you can delete that to take it out and then click OK, but we're going to keep ours. So we'll click cancel and click in the background. So keep in mind, if you don't want to clutter up your diagram with too many call-outs you can add additional information to objects like shapes by using a screen tip.

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