Change smart tag options

1. On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options, and then click the Smart Tags tab.
2. Select or clear the Label text with smart tags check box.

Microsoft Office Word 2003 allows you to turn off smart tags for data types or individual data items.

1. Move the insertion point over the text until the Smart Tag Actions button appears.
2. Click the button, and then point to Stop Recognizing "term".
3. Do one of the following:
   • Click as smart tag name to prevent Microsoft Word from recognizing the data type.
   • Click as Smart Tag to to stop recognizing the term.

     Note  When you stop recognizing a term, you delete the smart tag permanently.

You can show or hide the purple dotted underlines that indicate smart tags.

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the View tab.
2. Under Show, select or clear the Smart tags check box.

The Smart Tag Actions buttons appear when you move the insertion point over smart tags. Hiding the buttons hides the menu of actions that the smart tags provide.

1. On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options, and then click the Smart Tags tab.
2. Select or clear the Show Smart Tag Actions buttons check box.

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Save tab.
2. Under Save options, select or clear the Embed smart tags check box.

   Note  Even if you choose not to embed smart tags, the smart tag recognizers that are available on your computer are still active for the document.

You save smart tags as XML when you need to provide actions on Web pages.

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Save tab.
2. Under Save options, select the Save smart tags as XML properties in Web pages check box.

You can save smart tags in your e-mail messages for use by the recipients. To use the smart tag, recipients must view the e-mail message in Microsoft Outlook 2002 or later and senders must be using Word as their e-mail editor.

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.
2. Click E-mail Options, and then click the General tab.
3. Select or clear the Save smart tags in e-mail check box.

Note  If your e-mail options are set to filter HTML before sending, Outlook will remove smart tags from your messages.