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All those odd little gadgets on the PowerPoint text ruler can get a bit confusing.

Worse yet, nobody's quite sure what to call them, so even people who understand the functions perfectly may resort to explanations like "Well, you have to Ctrl+drag the chiclet thingie on the left over to the up-pointing widget then ..."

Yeah. Uh huh.

This MSDN article describes the official MS terminology for the chiclets and widgets and even describes what they do.

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