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Excel Sheet Hover Over Cell To Display Data

Basically this is what I want:
I want to be able to hover my cursor over a cell in an excel sheet that then brings up a box showing data that is entered in another sheet within the workbook.

Example:
In a workbook I have 2 sheets one labeled names and one labeled ages. On the names tab/sheet I want to be able to hover over someones name (let's say that user is in A1 on the names sheet) I want it to display a number that I have already manually entered on the ages sheet in cell B4.
So let's say I have 45 entered in cell B4 on the ages sheet. When I hover over cell A1 on the names sheet a pop up is displayed that says 45

Rory Archibald

What is the link between A1 and b4?

jppinto

You could use some code to add the information to the cell as a comment when the mouse is hover the cell and then remove the comment when the mouse exits the cell, something like this:

Range("B2").AddComment
Range("B2").Comment.Text Text:=Cells(myRange.Row, 1)

Hope that you get the general idea...

jppinto

adam_daunhauer

ASKER

rorya - I am dumbing it down a little this is actually an access file that has data entered into it and then an excel sheet that was some macros running (rolling months etc) I am looking for a quick fix without having to add another column into the excel sheet.

jppinto - I do not see here where it references the second sheet that it is pulling the data from. I am not a programmer.
Is it something like this for the example I gave?
Range("A1").AddComment
Range("A1").Comment.Text Text:=Cells("ages" "B4")

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adam_daunhauer

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that is exactly what I am looking for