Tags for Microsoft Office products are currently a mess. Office: - <s>[tag:office]</s>, [tag:microsoft-office] - [tag:office-2007], [tag:office-2010], [tag:office-2010-beta], [tag:ms-office-2007], [tag:office-2008], [tag:microsoft-office-2010], [tag:office-2010], [tag:office-1997] <sub>(wow...)</sub>, [tag:office-2002], [tag:ms-office-2003] Word: - [tag:Microsoft-word], [tag:msword], [tag:word] - [tag:microsoft-word-2007], [tag:microsoft-word-2010], [tag:microsoft-word-2003], [tag:microsoft-word-2008] - [tag:word-2007], [tag:word-2003] Excel: - [tag:excel], [tag:microsoft-excel] - [tag:excel-formula] - [tag:excel-2003], [tag:excel-2007], [tag:excel-2010], [tag:excel-2002] Powerpoint: - [tag:powerpoint], [tag:microsoft-powerpoint] - [tag:powerpoint-2007], [tag:powerpoint-2010], [tag:powerpoint-2003] - [tag:powerpoint-video] Publisher: - [tag:microsoft-publisher] Access: - [tag:access], [tag:microsoft-access], [tag:ms-access] - [tag:microsoft-access-2007], [tag:microsoft-access-2003] There is very little structure or order in how Office-related questions are being tagged. I think this should be cleaned up. I would like to propose the following tagging recommendations for office questions; feel free to critique my suggestions. - Questions about a **specific office product**, like Word, should be tagged like [tag:microsoft-word]. - Questions that pertain to a **specific version of office**, and would _not apply_ to all/other versions, should be tagged like [tag:microsoft-office-2010] - Questions pertaining to **any or many versions of office** should be tagged [tag:microsoft-office] A question could have several of these tags, e.g. it might be tagged [tag:microsoft-office-2010] and [tag:microsoft-word] if the question is about Word and is specific to the 2010 version. While more verbose than just [tag:microsoft-word-2010], it creates fewer redundant tags. Tags above which do not fall into one of those categories/naming schemes should be retagged and eliminated, with the following exceptions: - [tag:word] might apply to some other things having to do with words, but posts with that tag should be manually checked and retagged if appropriate. - <s>[tag:office] might apply to questions about office environments. Those sorts of questions should be retagged to [tag:home-office] or something of that sort</s> - [tag:access] might apply to questions about access control, etc. Those sorts of questions should be retagged to a more appropriate tag, as `access` is ambiguous. Most of this retagging should be able to be accomplished by moderators automatically with a batch retag, e.g. [tag:ms-office-2007] to [tag:microsoft-office-2007]. More nuanced ones, like the exceptions above, will need to be handled manually; I can do this if need be. So, do these seem like reasonable suggestions? What changes would you recommend? And how can we try to encourage new users to tag accordingly?