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Note: The mouseover layer appears and disappears as you move the mouse pointer on
and off the triggering object. If you use a click method to display the layer (from the Link
dialog), then the layer is revealed by a click on the object, and is hidden when you click
anywhere else on the page (or when you click on the pop-up layer’s close button if you
have turned off the "Close pop-up automatically" option shown above).

Pop-up Layers
A more powerful alternative allows you to display the contents of any layer as a result of
mousing over, or clicking, any object. This can be used for a range of different pop-up
effects such as pop-up photos, menus or detailed object descriptions.

To do this, place all the objects you want to pop-up on a new layer (in the PAGE & LAYER
GALLERY click NEW LAYER while you have a layer selected - don't use the MouseOver
layer), then set the Mouseover property (MOUSE-OVER tab of the Web Animation dialog)
of the original object to trigger the display of this layer when you mouseover any other
object. For example you can make a pop-up, like this, appear as you mouse over some
text:

Here are the steps to create a pop-up text block like this: