1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!-- 5 *********************************************************************** 6 * 7 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 8 * 9 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 10 * 11 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 12 * 13 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 14 * 15 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 16 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 17 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 18 * 19 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 20 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 21 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 22 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 23 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 24 * 25 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 26 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 27 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 28 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 29 * 30 ************************************************************************ 31 --> 32 33<helpdocument version="1.0"> 34<meta> 35<topic id="textsharedguideactive_help_on_offxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 36<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Turning Extended Tips On and Off</title> 37<filename>/text/shared/guide/active_help_on_off.xhp</filename> 38</topic> 39<history> 40<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 41<lastedited date="2007-02-23T10:55:48">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 42</history> 43</meta> 44<body> 45<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3156414"><bookmark_value>Help; extended tips on/off</bookmark_value> 46<bookmark_value>extended tips in Help</bookmark_value> 47<bookmark_value>tips;extended tips in Help</bookmark_value> 48<bookmark_value>tooltips;extended tips</bookmark_value> 49<bookmark_value>activating;extended help tips</bookmark_value> 50</bookmark> 51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156414" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><variable id="active_help_on_off"><link href="text/shared/guide/active_help_on_off.xhp" name="Turning Extended Tips On and Off">Turning Extended Tips On and Off</link> 52</variable></paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3157958" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2"> 54<emph>Extended tips</emph> provide a brief description of the function of a particular icon, text box or menu command when you rest your cursor on that item.</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155339" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="3">To turn Extended Tips on and off:</paragraph> 56<list type="unordered"> 57<listitem> 58<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3154823" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="4">Choose <emph><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</caseinline><defaultinline>Tools - Options</defaultinline></switchinline> - %PRODUCTNAME - General</emph>, and check <emph>Extended tips</emph>.</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3149398" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="5">A check mark indicates that the extended tips are activated.</paragraph> 60</listitem> 61</list> 62<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149811" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="6">To turn Extended Tips on temporarily:</paragraph> 63<list type="unordered"> 64<listitem> 65<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3153541" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">Press the shortcut keys Shift+F1 to activate extended tips once.</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3153825" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">A question mark appears beside the mouse pointer. You can move this <emph>Help Mouse Pointer</emph> over all controls, icons and menu commands to obtain a description of the command. The <emph>Help Mouse Pointer</emph> is disabled the next time you click the mouse.</paragraph> 67</listitem> 68</list> 69<section id="relatedtopics"> 70<embed href="text/shared/05/00000110.xhp#00000110"/> 71</section> 72</body> 73</helpdocument> 74