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Acrobat 8 - Add "Click Here" Tooltip to Links

Thelisha
Registered: Dec 26 2007
Posts: 10
Answered

Hello Acrobat Group!
This may be a really simple question, but I have tried to locate the answer online and have been unsuccessful! So hopefully someone can answer this question. I have a long manual created in Word 2007 that has several page references to other sections in the manual. I want to add the phrase "click here" to icons in the manual and have that phrase appear when users hover their mouse over the icon. The icons already jump to a particular sections in the manual because I set that up in Word 2007 using the hyperlink feature.

Now I just want to add that tooltip phrase so users will know they can click the icon to get to that page reference. I tried creating an invisible button over the icon, but that took away the ability to click the icon. I know I can make the buttons excute an action to jump to the page, but that would mean I would have to recreate all the hyperlinks that I already made in Word! Therefore resulting in double work for me! Is it possible just to add a tool tip in Acrobat 8?
Thank you,
Thelisha

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1, Windows
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Just a thought...
Try adding alternate text for the icon(s) in the Word file(s).
Check the PDF conversion configuration. Select the accessibility option.
Idea is to have a tagged output PDF with the icons ("Figures") provided with alternate text. When mouse hovers over icon the alt text shows which would be your "tooltip".

Be well...

Thelisha
Registered: Dec 26 2007
Posts: 10
Hi! Thanks so much for responding and with your great suggestion. Adding the alt text in Word worked out perfect. Once I converted the PDF I saw the "tooltip" I added to the hyperlink. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Jerrynguyen
Registered: Apr 25 2011
Posts: 1
Hi everybody,
I need your help for below question. thanks so much.
How to create a tooltip like "callout" tool on interactive PDF form?
so that when user use it they can make the note to one area of photo then click on the print button to print it to fixed PDF.
Jerry.
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Jerry,

Just use the desired tool from off the Comments & Markups toolbar.
Use Acrobat Pro to Reader enable the PDF if you want users of Adobe Reader to be able to apply Comment/Markup tools for annotations.



Be well...