Smart Painter enables you to copy in one click the position and the dimensions of a given element in PowerPoint and apply it to any other element in your presentation.

Use Smart Painter to copy any shape, text box or placeholder properties

1. Select your reference shape with the qualities you want to replicate.
2. Click the Smart Painter button. A pop-up window appears. Smart Painter in now running and will only stop when the pop-up window is closed.
3. In the pop-up, select the reference shape's properties you would like to copy:
   • Horizontal alignment: either Left, Center or Right
   • Vertical alignment: either Top, Middle or Bottom
   • Dimensions: Width, Height or both. You can also lock the ratio width/height of the shapes to make sure they will not be distorted by ticking Preserve Aspect Ratio.
   • Tick the Format checkbox to copy the formatting the same way it would do with the native feature Format Painter.
4. To apply the selected properties to a shape, just click on it. Smart painter can be performed between different presentations as well.
5. Once you are done, close the Smart Painter window.

Copy and paste width or height

This feature allows you to apply a shape dimension (width or height) to any other shape selected in your slide.

1. Select all the shapes for which you want to apply a particular dimension. The shape you selected in first is the reference shape.
2. Click the arrow next to the Smart Painter button to open the drop-down menu and choose whether you want to replicate the width or the height of the reference shape.
3. All selected shapes have now been applied the width or height of the reference shape.