ScreenTips are shown by default in Microsoft PowerPoint when you hover your cursor over a button. The ScreenTip feature will display the name of the button and its description; ...

Don’t show ScreenTips – This option turns off ScreenTips and Enhanced ScreenTips, so you only see the command name. Read: Can’t remove Highlights or Shading from Word document.

Click on Popular in the left pane and in the ScreenTips Style area, choose "Don't show ScreenTips" from the pop-up menu. Click OK to close the box and get back to Word.-- The New York Times.

To suppress all ScreenTips , click on Tools, Options and the View tab, bringing up this screen: Under the Show category, uncheck the ScreenTips box (in the first column) to program Word to halt the ...