I receive the message "A tip is waiting for the page to refresh." What does that mean exactly?

This message means that the tooltip on the next step, probably step 3 is waiting for the page to refresh.

To change this behavior, open the 3rd step in the Guided Learning editor and under the activation settings, unset the Show tip after page refresh setting.

When should I use this setting?

Consider the following situation, you have a guide for running a company search on LinkedIn. Your first step will be to enter a company name in the search field and than to click on the magnifying glass in order to run the search. For the third step, you would like a splash screen that will pop up once the search results are loaded.

If you do not set the 'Show tip after page refresh' setting, as soon as you click on the search button the Splash Screen you set up in step 3 will appear, even though the search has not finished running. Then LinkedIn would load the search results, and the Splash Screen will display again. To avoid this behavior the 'Show tip after page refresh' should be set to delay the splash screen from appearing until after the search has completed and the page has refreshed.