1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textsharedguideactive_help_on_offxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Turning Extended Tips On and Off</title> 28<filename>/text/shared/guide/active_help_on_off.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3156414"> 33<bookmark_value>Help; extended tips on/off</bookmark_value> 34<bookmark_value>extended tips in Help</bookmark_value> 35<bookmark_value>tips;extended tips in Help</bookmark_value> 36<bookmark_value>tooltips;extended tips</bookmark_value> 37<bookmark_value>activating;extended help tips</bookmark_value> 38</bookmark> 39<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> 40</variable></paragraph> 41<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3157958" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2"> 42<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> 43<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155339" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="3">To turn Extended Tips on and off:</paragraph> 44<list type="unordered"> 45<listitem> 46<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> 47<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> 48</listitem> 49</list> 50<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149811" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="6">To turn Extended Tips on temporarily:</paragraph> 51<list type="unordered"> 52<listitem> 53<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> 54<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> 55</listitem> 56</list> 57<section id="relatedtopics"> 58<embed href="text/shared/05/00000110.xhp#00000110"/> 59</section> 60</body> 61</helpdocument> 62