[Junebug172]

can someone please tell me how to turn off the balloons on my MSM panel. When I chat and leave the cursor in a window, a balloon pops up. I don't know how to kill this!!

John

[as2]

I have also been trying to get the baloons to stop popping up, but I don't think there is an option to stop them It isn't controlled by the 'show balloons' command in the Help menu. I also cannot find an option in MSN's own preferences.

Sorry I can't help.

[jeromep]

Any of you use Office. If so the pop up ballons telling you what the buttons do is a typical Microsoft feature. Ok, with that said if you can't find a prefference option to kill it, you get to live with it.

If i'm not mistaken, the balloon should only pop up if the cursor sits on a button for an extended period of time. So, if you put the curisor just outside of the applications window the balloons should not appear. Also, I will confirm that the balloons are not controled by Apple's Balloon help. That would be too logical for Microsoft.

Sometimes I love Microsoft for Office and Explorer, other times I hate them for their hacked up ports of apps that they can't not make for the Mac community. Go figure!

The balloons do only pop when the cursor sits, but considering you have to click to send in MSM, the cursor tends to stay there. Its a pain having to move it off the app after every click to avoid the balloons.