Turn on/off document tooltips

Word 365 2013 2010 2007
By default, Word shows document tooltips when you hover on a button, but this option can be turned off.

To do this, follow next steps:

   1.   On the File tab, click the Options button:

Word 2016 options

   2.   In the Word Options dialog box, on the Display tab check or uncheck Show document tooltips on hover:

Display tab Word 2016

See also this tip in French: Activer / désactiver les info-bulles sur les documents.

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