Show Screen Tips
This policy setting allows you to determine whether Office applications display screen tips when users hover on commands on the Office Ribbon, and whether the screen tips display feature names and descriptions, or just feature names. If you enable this policy setting, you can select any of the following options: - Show feature descriptions: Both feature names and descriptions appear when users hover over commands on the Ribbon. - Don't show feature descriptions: Only feature names appear when users hover over commands on the Ribbon. - Don't show screen tips: Nothing appears when users hover over commands on the Ribbon. If you disable this policy setting, nothing appears when users hover over commands on the Office Ribbon. If you do not configure this policy setting, both feature names and descriptions appear when users hover over commands on the Office Ribbon.
Policy Details
- Policy Name
- L_ShowScreenTips
- Registry Key
- software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\toolbars
- Supported On
- At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7
- Available Languages
- en-us
Configuration Elements
L_ShowScreenTipsDropID
Type: enum
- 0 Show feature descriptions
- 1 Don't show feature descriptions
- 2 Don't show screentips