That is _not_ the description of a Smart Tag. Smart Tags are things like 
addresses, dates, etc., and about the only thing you have correct in your 
description is that these are specially highlighted. Smart Tags have nothing 
whatever to do with spelling, punctuation, or grammatical errors.

An excellent web discussion of Smart Tags is at:

http://www.motive.co.nz/glossary/smarttags.php

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Victor Gouveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 1:54 PM
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



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