16. Working with Smart Tags in VSTO
Introduction to Smart Tags
The Smart Tags feature of Word and Excel enables you to display a pop-up menu with actions for a given piece of text in a document or spreadsheet. A Smart Tag could recognize stock symbols (such as the MSFT stock symbol) and display a set of actions that can be taken for that symbol, for example. When Word finds a piece of text that a Smart Tag has recognized, it displays a red dotted underline under the recognized text. If the user hovers over the text, a pop-up menu icon appears next to the cell, as shown in Figure 16.1. If the user clicks the pop-up menu icon, a menu of actions displays for the recognized piece of text, as shown in Figure 16.2. When an action is selected, Word ...
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