Using Smart Tags in Office 2003

Smart tags in Office 2003 have been improved to make them easier to develop and to address a few limitations that were found in Office XP. You can now create recognizers for smart tag Lists, which are XML documents, by using regular expressions. The Type Library has also been extended for more power when creating smart tags via code.

by Dan Jurden

January 8, 2004

f you developed smart tags in Office XP, you'll be interested in the changes in Office 2003. Smart tag technology links text to resources that provide relevant information useful in creating a document. Or even better, relevant information can be inserted right into the document itself. Smart tags in Microsoft Office 2003 have been improved to make them even easier to develop, and they conquer a few limitations.

Smart tags were introduced in Microsoft Office XP, providing a new way to make more meaningful data in documents. A major change in Office 2003, the number of applications supporting smart tags has increased. In Office XP, smart tags were supported in Word, Excel, Outlook (with Word as the e-mail editor), and Internet Explorer, to a limited extent. In Office 2003, all these applications are supported and both PowerPoint 2003 and Access 2003 have been added.

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