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CommandBarControl.TooltipText property (Office)

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Gets or sets the text displayed in the ScreenTip of a CommandBarControl. Read/write.

Note

The use of CommandBars in some Microsoft Office applications has been superseded by the new ribbon component of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface. For more information, see Overview of the Office Fluent ribbon.

Syntax

expression.TooltipText

expression A variable that represents a CommandBarControl object.

Return value

String

Remarks

By default, the value of the Caption property is used as the ScreenTip.

Example

This example adds a ScreenTip to the last control on the active menu bar.

Set myMenuBar = CommandBars.ActiveMenuBar 
Set lastCtrl = myMenuBar _ 
   .Controls(myMenuBar.Controls.Count) 
lastCtrl.BeginGroup = True  
lastCtrl.TooltipText = "Click for help on UI feature"

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