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  38 <topic id="textsharedguideactive_help_on_offxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
  39 <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Turning Extended Tips On and Off</title>
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  42 <history>
  43 <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
  44 <lastedited date="2007-02-23T10:55:48">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited>
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  48 <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3156414"><bookmark_value>Help; extended tips on/off</bookmark_value>
  49 <bookmark_value>extended tips in Help</bookmark_value>
  50 <bookmark_value>tips;extended tips in Help</bookmark_value>
  51 <bookmark_value>tooltips;extended tips</bookmark_value>
  52 <bookmark_value>activating;extended help tips</bookmark_value>
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  54 <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>
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  56 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3157958" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">
  57 <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>
  58 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155339" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="3">To turn Extended Tips on and off:</paragraph>
  59 <list type="unordered">
  60 <listitem>
  61 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3154823" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="4">Choose <emph>Tools - Options - %PRODUCTNAME - General</emph>, and check <emph>Extended tips</emph>.</paragraph>
  62 <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>
  63 </listitem>
  64 </list>
  65 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149811" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="6">To turn Extended Tips on temporarily:</paragraph>
  66 <list type="unordered">
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  68 <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>
  69 <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>
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