OFF98: No Help Text Appears in Status Bar for Menu Items

ID: Q183425

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition
Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition
Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition
Microsoft PowerPoint 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

In the programs listed at the beginning of this article, no information about a menu item appears in the status bar when you point to the item on a menu.

WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior and view Help for a particular menu item, click Show Balloons on the Help menu. Then, point to a menu item.

A balloon appears and displays information for the menu item.

MORE INFORMATION

In the programs included in earlier versions of Microsoft Office, a brief description that summarizes the functionality of the menu item appears in the status bar when you point to an item on a menu.

For example, in Microsoft Excel 5.0, if you point to Open on the File menu, the following text appears in the status bar:

Opens saved document

In Microsoft Office 98 programs, no text appears in the status bar when you point to an item on a menu. This functionality is not available in any of the Microsoft Office 98 programs.

Additional query words: OFF98 XL98 WD98 PP98 statusbar

Keywords : xlui offhelp xlhelp
Version : MACINTOSH:98
Platform : MACINTOSH
Issue type : kbprb