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"Can someone please tell me the name of the text which appears when a mouse
> pointer is moved over an icon?"
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> I've seen it called:
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> Pop-up text
> Also, within the Microsoft programming world, it's called a "Tooltip" -
> the
> text in the tool tip being "Tooltip Text"
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