You're absolutely not alone; I've seen *many* sources (books on Word, for
example) refer to the Paste Options and AutoCorrect Options buttons as
"smart tags."

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"Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com wrote in message
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Thank you, Jay, and Suzanne.

Terminology problem is a nice euphemism - let's leave it at that
I understand now.

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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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I think we may have a terminology problem here.

AutoCorrect is one mechanism, and Smart Tags are another, despite their
options being placed in the same dialog.

When AutoCorrect has done something in your document, mousing over it
displays a little blue rectangle under the text. Hovering over this
rectangle brings up a box containing a lightning-bolt icon, which you
can
click to get an AutoCorrect Options context menu. The trigger for this
behavior isn't saved in the document, and it won't show up in the
recipient's copy. It exists only during the current session, until you
close
the document.

Smart Tags are created by plug-ins that look for things like people's
names,
addresses, and stock symbols. Programmers using Visual Studio can create
custom Smart Tags for things such as product numbers or corporate
divisions.
Individual plug-ins can be enabled or disabled, or the whole mechanism
can
be turned off. When a Smart Tag recognizes its target in a document, it
applies a red or purple dotted underline to the text, and mousing over
that
displays a box containing the information "i", which you can click to
get
a
Smart Tags context menu. It's possible but not necessary to save the
recognition trigger in the document (Tools Options Save Embed
smart
tags).

My point was that if you see a Microsoft-supplied Smart Tag trigger in
your
document -- say, an address -- you can turn off Smart Tags on your
machine,
save the document without embedded tags, and send it to another
computer.
If
that user has Smart Tags enabled, the recognizer on their copy of Word
will
(probably) recognize the same text. It will look the same as if you had
saved the tag.

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Tony Jollans wrote:
Run that one by me again!

If I have a document with autocorrections I have just made, they have
smart tags.
If I save and close and re-open the document those autocorrections
now no longer have smart tags.

If I send it to someone else are you saying they can see those smart
tags?

It offers up some intriguing possibilities.


"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
news The tags aren't saved in the document, but if the recipient has Smart
Tags enabled, their recognizer will show the tags just as if they had
been saved. A distinction without a difference...

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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:26:26 -0000, "Tony Jollans" My Forename at My
Surname dot com wrote:

Autocorrection (and most other) Smart Tags are not saved with the
document. Once it's been closed they won't be there.

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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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justlearning wrote:
I need to attach a letter from word to an e-mail and I don't want
any auto-corrections to show. At the top of the letter, I have an
address line. There's a red dashed line under the address and I
can't figure out how to disable it. Just looks unprofessional,
you know?! Thanks for the help.

That line probably indicates that the address is recognized by a
"Smart Tag". If you hover the mouse over the address, do you get a
small square with the i-in-circle "information" symbol? Clicking
on that square will display a dropdown menu of actions the Smart
Tag can do.

You can turn off the display of Smart Tags for yourself in Tools
AutoCorrect Options Smart Tags. If you send the document to
someone else and they have Smart Tags enabled, though, they'll
still see the underline (but presumably that's the way they're
used to seeing it).

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