Super Tooltips
How tooltips are implemented in Office 12 ...
"Today, I want to introduce the way we've integrated help content into the Office 12 user interface: a feature we call "Super Tooltips."
The idea is simple: tooltips are successfully and frequently used by people at all skill and experience levels. We wanted to take the design of tooltips in Office to the next level. "Super Tooltips" (just a code name) were born.
First, every tooltip contains the feature name and keyboard shortcut (if it has one.) This is the bare minimum you'd expect from a tooltips in Office, and we haven't changed that. No surprises yet.
Next, we add to every feature's tooltip a short text description letting you know what that feature is for. We've written these in the form of: "This is the right feature to use if you want to [tooltip text here]." The concept is to give you the idea of what a feature is for without needing to look it up in help or in a manual." continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
"Today, I want to introduce the way we've integrated help content into the Office 12 user interface: a feature we call "Super Tooltips."
The idea is simple: tooltips are successfully and frequently used by people at all skill and experience levels. We wanted to take the design of tooltips in Office to the next level. "Super Tooltips" (just a code name) were born.
First, every tooltip contains the feature name and keyboard shortcut (if it has one.) This is the bare minimum you'd expect from a tooltips in Office, and we haven't changed that. No surprises yet.
Next, we add to every feature's tooltip a short text description letting you know what that feature is for. We've written these in the form of: "This is the right feature to use if you want to [tooltip text here]." The concept is to give you the idea of what a feature is for without needing to look it up in help or in a manual." continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
Super Tooltips.
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