OFF97: Multipage Active X Control Tooltips Appear at Design Time

ID: Q183219

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

If you add any control to a MultiPage control on a UserForm, controls with ControlTipText entries in the Properties window of the Microsoft Visual Basic Editor(VBE) display their tips during design time.


CAUSE

The MultiPage ActiveX Control enables ToolTips as the control is updated during design time.


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.


MORE INFORMATION

A ToolTip that you assign in Visual Basic for Applications through the Properties Code window should be active and appear only at run time.

A MultiPage control presents multiple screens of information as a single set.

The ControlTipText property specifies text that appears when users briefly hold the mouse pointer over a control without clicking.

The ControlTipText property lets you give users tips about a control in a running form. You can set the property during design time, but it only appears by the control during run time. The default value of ControlTipText is an empty string. When the value of ControlTipText is set to an empty string, no tip is available for that control.


REFERENCES

For more information about using ToolTips, in the Visual Basic Editor, click Contents And Index on the Help menu, click the Index tab in Microsoft Office Help. Type the following text

tooltip
and then double-click the selected text to go to the "described" topic. If you are unable to find the information you need, ask the Office Assistant.

Additional query words: Excel Word Word97 Excel97 PowerPoint 


Keywords          : kbdta 
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: June 4, 1999