Using tags to organize content in a Word document

[AJStein]

Hey everyone,

I am new to this group and do not know if you can answer if this
question. If I came to the wrong place, any suggestions for where I
should take this idea would be great.

So, I was at work today and had an idea. Instead of organizing
paragraphs under a unitary heading, I wanted something more effective.
I wanted to having somethinkg akin to del.icio.us tagging in a
Microsoft Word document. This way, I can have multiple tags that can
be attributed to a paragraph that has overlapping subject matter. I
found DocTagger, but I would prefer to put in more effort than to use
an external program. Furthermore, this program classifies documents,
but I want something that will be able to attribute 1+ tag(s) to a
field of text in the document. Does anyone know if there is a way to
do this. If so, how? I am very interested in this concept.

Cheers,
_AJS

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

For the "engine", you could use Word's bookmark feature. Bookmarks can be
placed at a point, around a word, or around any unit of
text/words/paragraphs/etc. You can tag any given unit of text with as many
bookmarks as you like. Bookmarks can also overlap. For example, in the
phrase "quick brown fox", brown could be tagged as "color" and "furtype",
and "brown fox" could be tagged as "foxtype".

Using bookmarks to serve as your tagging method, it would then be up to you
to work with them as you see fit.