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We all see them while working with PowerPoint but most of us rarely use them. These are the smart tags available in Microsoft PowerPoint. Smart tags are tool icons that appear on the screen after certain actions such as, copy and paste or auto correction of text is made by you. Smart tags make life easier. These smart tags display a list options as a popup menu, when clicked. These options help you to control the output of the action performed by you. For example, if you have programmed the software to autocorrect the word ‘Power’ into ‘PowerPoint’ every time you type it but at a particular instance if you want to type the word ‘Power’ you can use the AutoCorrect smart tag icon options to undo the change. PowerPoint provides several smart tag icons. All smart tags icons vary in their appearance but their functions are more or less similar to each other. Some smart tag options available in PowerPoint are:

AutoCorrect Smart Tag Icon

The AutoCorrect smart tag icon appears after any automatic correction or modification takes place. For example, lowercase alphabet being corrected to uppercase. The AutoCorrect smart tag displays a small blue box icon next to the autocorrected text when you place the mouse pointer near it. When you click the AutoCorrect smart tag icon it displays a popup menu. You can use these options to undo or modify the changes that have been automatically performed.

Paste Smart Tag Icon

The Paste smart tag icon appears when you paste a copied icon on the work area. The Paste smart tag icon provides you with the option of selecting from the various formats of the pasted object. The smart tag icon appears after the pasted object, which can be text or slides or tables. Click on the smart tag icon to display the options to modify the paste formats. For example, if you copy and paste a slide and insert it after a slide that uses a separate design template, you can select the original design for the newly pasted slide or let it assume the design of the slide it now follows.

AutoFit Smart Tag Icon

The AutoFit smart tag icon appears when Microsoft PowerPoint resizes the text that you are typing and fits it in its placeholder. You can select from the options available in the popup menu of the AutoFit smart tag icon to undo the resizing. The AutoFit smart tag icon also allows you to modify column layouts and also split text between slides.

Automatic Layout Smart Tag Icon

The Automatic Layout smart tag icon appears after you insert objects such as pictures, graphs, organization charts and tables, that modify the layout of the slide. PowerPoint automatically modifies the slide layout to fit the object that you have inserted. You can use the Automatic Layout smart tag icon to undo the changes or to turn it off.

- Thomson Chemmanoor