Smart Tags are a newer concept, and may require some user training. They are an extension of Microsoft's IntelliSense technology. In current Office versions, Word recognises URLs and email addresses, and makes them active. This has been extended to include Outlook information such as names, dates, addresses, phone numbers, and user-defined data types. Smart Tag implementation is impressive, even in this beta version.
Users can click on a name in Word and have that person's full name and address entered from Outlook.
Excel uses Smart Tags to flag corrections to errors in calculations, and prompt for values required by functions. IT staff and users will be pleased with the new Save on Crash protection against application errors. Following a crash in Word, Excel or PowerPoint, the Hang Manager comes to the rescue. This allows users to recover data from the PC's memory and save it as a document. Protection against power interruption is provided by the traditional periodic auto-save facility, supplemented by a recovery procedure prompt.