Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassUser
CategoryMicrosoft Office 2016 > Miscellaneous
Supported onWindows7

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.

Internal name
L_ShowScreenTips
Policy ID
79cb4e774c14
Elements
1

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

No explicit registry values are set for enabled or disabled states.

Policy elements

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ElementTypeRegistry mappingConstraints & behavior
L_ShowScreenTipsDropID
ID L_ShowScreenTipsDropID
enum
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\common\toolbars\screentipscheme
Type REG_DWORD
Options: Show feature descriptions (0), Don't show feature descriptions (1), Don't show screentips (2)

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