Show ControlTipText of a button without clicking it?

In Access 2000, I would have sworn I could see the controltiptext of a
button without clicking on it. Can this still be done in AccessXP?
If so, does someone have a code snippet showing how to do it? I can
only get it to work by clicking the button...

Thanks,
Pieter

The tip text should show without clicking, provided nothing else is
overlapping your button.

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Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
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Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

"Pieter Linden" <pietlinden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bf31e41b.0311202258.49b76c66@posting.google.c om...[color=blue]
> In Access 2000, I would have sworn I could see the controltiptext of a
> button without clicking on it. Can this still be done in AccessXP?
> If so, does someone have a code snippet showing how to do it? I can
> only get it to work by clicking the button...[/color]

"Allen Browne" <AllenBrowne@SeeSig.Invalid> wrote in message news:<3fbdbcaf$0$1742$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net. au>...[color=blue]
> The tip text should show without clicking, provided nothing else is
> overlapping your button.
>
> --
> Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
> Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
> Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.
>
> "Pieter Linden" <pietlinden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:bf31e41b.0311202258.49b76c66@posting.google.c om...[color=green]
> > In Access 2000, I would have sworn I could see the controltiptext of a
> > button without clicking on it. Can this still be done in AccessXP?
> > If so, does someone have a code snippet showing how to do it? I can
> > only get it to work by clicking the button...[/color][/color]


Really weird. Tested it out on a new form, and it works fine.
Removed any code that would interfere with it from the form that
didn't work, and it still didn't work. Time to rebuild...

Thanks!

Pieter,

Do you have the button in a box? If you do, selecet the button and then go to
Format - Move To Front.


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"Pieter Linden" <pietlinden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bf31e41b.0311210719.30be363d@posting.google.c om...[color=blue]
> "Allen Browne" <AllenBrowne@SeeSig.Invalid> wrote in message[/color]
news:<3fbdbcaf$0$1742$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net. au>...[color=blue][color=green]
> > The tip text should show without clicking, provided nothing else is
> > overlapping your button.
> >
> > --
> > Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
> > Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
> > Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.
> >
> > "Pieter Linden" <pietlinden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:bf31e41b.0311202258.49b76c66@posting.google.c om...[color=darkred]
> > > In Access 2000, I would have sworn I could see the controltiptext of a
> > > button without clicking on it. Can this still be done in AccessXP?
> > > If so, does someone have a code snippet showing how to do it? I can
> > > only get it to work by clicking the button...[/color][/color]
>
>
> Really weird. Tested it out on a new form, and it works fine.
> Removed any code that would interfere with it from the form that
> didn't work, and it still didn't work. Time to rebuild...
>
> Thanks![/color]

Thanks, I got it sorted. I broke down and wrote code to assign the
ControlTipText by opening the form in design mode and interating
through the command buttons... works a champ.