Once the error message pops up, click on a button that reports the problem and, if it is a known problem, either tells you how to work around it next time or links you to a page from which you can download a fix. This is the way the Internet should enhance our computing experiences. Support options in Office XP show the direction that Microsoft is going. And more enhancements will be coming your way when the company introduces Windows 2000 this year. In Office XP, Microsoft has improved collaboration tools, too.
Many companies share documents between individuals within and outside their organizations.
While older versions of Office allow fairly easy tracking of changes as different people edit portions of the document, the edits mess up the formatting, making the document more difficult to read. Office XP makes the changes much easier to read by putting them in the margins as call-outs. So your document maintains its original look and feel instead of having all sorts of paragraph strikeouts, extra text or superfluous underlined phrases. One of the coolest enhancements is a new feature called Smart Tags, which show up on your documents as purple underlines, much the way Microsoft spell checkers and grammar checkers underline words in red and green. When you see a purple squiggly line, click on the word or phrase to get a special look-up.