29 May 2004

More details on Smart Documents More details on Smart Documents for anyone wanting to really get stuck in, the author evangalises smart documents below: I am in love with the user experience for smart documents. They do an amazing job of making document-centric tasks smoother and more productive by integrating data, processes and help right where the knowledge worker lives in Microsoft® Office Word 2003 or Microsoft Office Excel 2003. When I first saw smart documents, it was one of those "Ah-ha!" moments: instead of building, deploying, supporting and training users for yet another new application, put the application smarts right into the documents themselves. Ah-ha, beautiful idea! Makes me want to spend a couple of hours playing around, I like "Ah-ha!" moments.  5:22:49 PM    trackback []  comment [] Just getting the idea of smart clients, now we have smart documents Joe describes the concept of a smart document: A smart document is a document-based solution which provides a user with help information, auxiliary data, actions and custom tools that are pertinent to WHERE a user is in the document and that are presenteddynamically WHEN a user enters that region of the document. Then describes the tools that Microsoft is working on to develop Smart Documents here This is not an area that I know much about, but given the amount of time people spend authoring documents and forms, and the amount of times people get them wrong it looks important.  Even more important when document content is tagged in XML and that tagged content can be mined, document content quality will need to increase and it sounds like Smart Document concepts are going to be key to driving that quality improvement. 5:13:41 PM    trackback []  comment []

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