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What did you do before you knew about format painter?  Well my guess is a shed full of repetitive formatting.

Format Painter is one of those time saving shortcuts that once you have found it, life using Word and Excel is a much more pleasant experience.

MS Word 2003	MS Word 2003

Basic usage

• Simply place your cursor within your document text that has your desired format
• Click the Format Painter icon (I have included screen shots of MS word 2003 & 2007)
• You will notice your cursor will change to , you can now highlight the text you want to change and hey presto it takes on a new format!

Power usage

As of MS Office 2007 format painter gets a natty advertisement of this power tweak (see the screenshot on the right, above) but it also applies to previous version and for all of you that do not know about it all you need to do is shut your eyes and…..

Double click (the tool bar icon)

Now the Format Painter icon will not revert to the standard cursor and you can format till your heart content.  To revert to your normal cursor simply press the ESCAPE key or click the tool bar icon again.

What are you waiting for, get formatting!