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You can use Format Painter on the Standard toolbar to apply text formatting and some basic graphics formatting, such as borders and fills.

Note  If you don't see the Standard toolbar (Standard toolbar: A toolbar that performs some of the most common tasks in a Microsoft Office application, such as opening, saving, and printing files.), on the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Standard.

1. Select the text or graphic that has the formatting that you want to copy.
2. On the Standard toolbar, click Format Painter . The pointer changes to a paintbrush icon.

   To apply formatting to more than one block of text or graphic, double-click Format Painter .

3. Click the text or graphic that you want to format.

   If you apply formatting to more than one block of text or graphic, select each of them, one at a time.

Notes

• For graphics, the Format Painter works best with drawing objects, such as AutoShapes. However, you can copy formatting from a picture (such as the picture's border) as long as the wrapping style of the picture is set to something other than In Line With Text (on the Drawing toolbar, click Draw, and then point to Text Wrapping).
• The Format Painter can't copy the font and font size on WordArt (WordArt: Text objects you create with ready-made effects to which you can apply additional formatting options.) text.