Yup. I agree that that's a good solution. I don't at all mean to imply that I think tool tips should be any longer that a word or two. I'm not really crazy about status messages, personally, so, I've started attaching "cue cards" to fields. Then the users are in control of writing the cues.

>I don't actually mind tooltips on screen myself so much, but we had one or two really vocal critics in our department, and I can pick better battles to fight :)
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>I agree, having, e.g., 'International System Code' in a 1-char column makes little sense :) I didn't mention that the route we agreed on is to use the message in statusbar (activex) in the Mousemove to display longer descriptions...everyone is fairly happy with that...