Victor, You are not quite correct about smart tags. They are not the marks put in by the spell check or grammar check. You are correct in that they are indicated by a line under the text. The line is purple. Please read the following information that I found in the MS-Word help on Smart Tags.
HTH, Annette Microsoft Office Assistance: About smart tags You can save time by using smart tags (smart tags: Data recognized and labeled as a particular type. For example, a person's name or the name of a recent Microsoft Outlook e-mail message recipient is a type of data that can be recognized and labeled with a smart tag.) to perform actions (actions: Tasks that can be performed by using smart tags. For example, adding a name to a Microsoft Outlook Contacts folder is one action that might be taken with a person name smart tag.) in Microsoft Word that you'd normally open other programs to do. The purple dotted lines beneath text in your document indicate the smart tags. When Word recognizes types of data, it marks the data with a smart tag indicator, a purple dotted underline. To find out what actions you can take with a smart tag, move the insertion point over the underlined text until the Smart Tag Actions button Button image appears. You can then click the button to see a list of actions you can take. If you save as a Web page a Word document that contains smart tags, some tasks can be performed on the Web using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later. You can also use smart tags in your Microsoft Outlook e-mail messages and in Microsoft Excel. You enable smart tags by selecting smart tag recognizers from a list (Tools menu, AutoCorrect Options command, Smart Tags tab). Each smart tag recognizer identifies a type of data, such as names, dates, or telephone numbers, and contains the logic needed to provide one or more actions for each data type. When you type text into a new document or open an existing document, the logic in the smart tag looks for words that match the data types in the list. When the smart tag finds a match, it places a smart tag indicator- a dotted purple line- under the term and enables the appropriate actions. The actions you can take depend on the type of data that Word recognizes and labels with a smart tag. For example, "Nate Sun" in the previous example is recognized as a "person name" smart tag with actions you can take, such as Open Contact, Schedule a Meeting, Add to Contacts, or Insert Address. If you select the Add to Contacts action, you can add the name and address to your Outlook contact folder without copying the information, opening Outlook, and then pasting the information into a contact card. The smart tags that come with Word are just the beginning. You can check for more options in the AutoCorrect dialog box (on the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options, click the Smart Tags tab, and then click More Smart Tags) to find new smart tags and actions on the Web. You may find additional smart tags created by Microsoft, by third-party companies, or by Information Technology (IT) professionals, who may design smart tags and actions for the specific products or services that you work with. For example, if you work in a sales department, you might be able to click a "product name" smart tag in your document that offers actions such as "check quantity in stock" or "check price." You can turn smart tags on or off, hide them, save them as part of a document, or save them as XML properties in Web pages. Smart tags and actions are developed by Microsoft or third-party companies. Information Technology (IT) professionals may also create smart tags and actions that are customized for the specific products or services you work with. Creators of smart tags can provide detailed information about a particular smart tag recognizer, which you can access by clicking Properties on the Smart Tags tab of the AutoCorrect dialog box. The Properties button is available only if the smart tag developer has provided information to be viewed when this button is clicked. Other buttons you may see in your document -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor Gouveia Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 1:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [jaws-users] smart tag Hi David, In Microsoft Word, the program checks spelling and grammar as you write, and to a visual person, it looks like scribbled underlines. In essence, when a person makes a spelling or grammar error during the composition of a document, Word visually underlines it with a coloured scribbly line underneath the word or phrase it thinks is misspelled or grammatically incorrect. These scribbled lines appear red for spelling mistakes, and green for grammatical errors. These lines are SmartTags, and when a sighted person right clicks on the line with the mouse button, it gives the person the opportunity to correct the error, without doing a full spelling and grammar check. It's quite handy, and if you have sounds installed, and the checkbox checked to show feedback with sound, you will actually hear the line being drawn. As I said, it's more of a sighted thing, however, I believe that there are keyboard shortcuts that allow a blind individual to use the SmartTag features also, I just can't remember what they are. When Jaws reads the document, it will announce SmartTags when reading, unless you set Jaws to ignore SmartTags. Victor P.S. I believe Jaws has information on SmartTags in their online help about Word, so you can read more on there. 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