question about tooltips/screentips

["christopher macdonald" <chrismac49 -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

I'm writing UI text for an employee Web tool. There are lots of links, 
buttons, check boxes etc. Does anyone have a suggested style for where and 
how to use tooltips. For example, which of the following do you prefer? In 
this instance "Career Home" is a link.

Click to go to the Career Home.
Go to Career Home.
Career Home

Note that I'm punctuating sentences. I was thinking of using "Click to..." 
for all links, and buttons. "Type..." for all text boxes, and "Select..." 
for all drop-downs.

Any advice would be appreciated.

...cmac


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