In Microsoft Word, once I've created a citation, I want to be able to hover my cursor over the citation and have a tooltip pops up with more information. Then if I were to click on the toolkit, it will take me to the website of that citation source. Is there a way to do all this?



Here is an example. In this photo, you can see the highlighted word 'indigenous people' and the inset tooltip with more information about them., In this case it a definition. If I click on the tooltip, it will take me to the site I obtained the information from in my document.

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See Pop-Up Text in Microsoft Word and my free Add-In Pop-Up Text Add-In for Microsoft Word. I do not know that this will add an image, though.
It works, as far as I know, with any text, not just citations, in Word.

To have it take you to another spot with a click rather than simply display the text, use a hyperlink field. The pop-up text is whatever you put for the screentip when creating the hyperlink. This is discussed in my article on pop-up text and in:

• Add Screen Tips to Text in Word by Lene Fredborg, MVP
• Hyperlink field

Both my article and Lene Fredborg's focus on the popup text aspect of the fields.

To get pop-up text, you could also use a footnote or endnote instead of a citation. This produces pop-up text (the full text of the footnote/endnote) when the mouse pointer hovers over the reference number in the text. If the note in the text is clicked on, the user is taken to the note, which could contain a hyperlink.

Thank you for your help. My intent is to have my document posted on a website and since posting my question, I've learned you can't upload Word to the web. I can save it to a PDF but will apparently lose the tooltips which I really don't want to do. So the document will have to be created with the design elements in the webmasters product. What is the best way for me to continue to develop the document so the webmaster will know my final document intent with all the tooltips and links operational.

Thank you for all you do to help us dummies

You can upload Word to the web. Who told you that?
However, to use the methods I've shown, it does have to be used in Word, not as a web page, and not using Word for the web.