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Have you ever seen a Smart Tag? If you use Microsoft Office XP or later, the answer is probably yes. If you’re unsure, let us ask the question another way. Have you ever had your work interrupted by a pop-up button and you had no idea what it was for or how to make it go away? That was a Smart Tag.

Most Microsoft Office users have a love/hate relationship with Smart Tags; how you feel about Smart Tags depends largely on whether or not you know what to do with them. After all, it’s not the Smart Tag itself but what the Smart Tag does that really matters. For example:

  • When copying between Microsoft Office Word documents, you can use a Smart Tag to match the new text to the existing document formatting in one click.

  • When Microsoft ...

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