To what does tagging refer?

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Elsa O - 28 Dec 2005 22:16 GMT

Can tagging be applied to MS Word documents? Is this only for documents
going to the WWW?

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 29 Dec 2005 15:03 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?RWxzYSBP?=,

> Can tagging be applied to MS Word documents? Is this only for documents
> going to the WWW?

Tagging is the process of marking up text so that a software program (such
as a browser) can manipulate the text. For example, if you mark-up text
with HTML tags, a browser knows how to format them for display.

<html>
<body>This is text. <b>This sentence is bold.</b></body>
</html>

One also "tags" XML documents, for example. In this case, the tags specify
a data structure. RTF is also a "tagged" language that describes how a
document is to be laid out and formatted.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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