The one on the right is the default star. You can then format them to look completely different than the default look and feel.įor example, I added a star shape and then changed the line width, colors, added text, shadow, reflection, etc. If you go to the Insert tab and then click on Shapes, you can add all kinds of shapes to your document. In addition to text, Format Painter works well on certain types of graphics or drawings. If you do want to copy the text and paragraph formatting, then select the entire paragraph, including the paragraph mark. It’s worth noting that if you want to only copy text formatting, don’t select the entire paragraph. This is useful if the areas you want to apply the formatting to are not contiguous. In addition, they have an option whereby you can double-click on the Format Painter button and then apply the formatting to multiple sections throughout the document. You can obviously select more than one paragraph to apply the formatting in multiple places. Instead, if, after clicking on the Format Painter button, I clicked and then dragged to select the entire paragraph, it worked as desired. For example, I selected the top paragraph, clicked the button and then just clicked in the middle of the third paragraph. I found that simply clicking, however, was not the best way to apply the formatting.įor some reason, if you do it this way, it doesn’t apply all the formatting settings to the section.
In order to use the tool, you can select an area where you like the formatting, then click on the button and then click on a different section to apply the formatting to that section.
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I didn’t really understand how to use it, so I just hovered my mouse over the button to see the tooltip, which was pretty useful. Since I already knew about Keep Source Formatting and Match Destination Formatting (or Merge Formatting, as it is known as now), I figured there had to be a way to copy and paste just the formatting instead of the actual content.Īfter looking through the various buttons on different ribbons, I saw something called Format Painter. and the other was using a different font family, font size, bold and italic, indentation and more. Instead, one paragraph had double-spacing, highlighting, words bolded, etc. The top paragraph is what I wanted all the text in the document to look like, but unfortunately, that wasn’t the case.