Copy all formatting from one object to another - Help and How-to

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Copy all formatting from one object to another

Applies to: Microsoft Office Excel 2003, FrontPage 2003, PowerPoint 2003

Select the AutoShape (AutoShapes: A group of ready-made shapes that includes basic shapes, such as rectangles and circles, plus a variety of lines and connectors, block arrows, flowchart symbols, stars and banners, and callouts.), picture (picture: A file (such as a metafile) that you can ungroup and manipulate as two or more objects or a file that stays as a single object (such as bitmaps).), WordArt (WordArt: Text objects you create with ready-made effects to which you can apply additional formatting options.), or clip art (clip: A single media file, including art, sound, animation, or movies.) with the attributes (attribute: An object or text feature, such as line fill or text color, that you can manipulate by using drawing tools and menu commands.) you want to copy.
On the Standard toolbar, click Format Painter , and then click the object you want to copy the attributes to.

Note If you select an AutoShape with attached text, the look and style of the text is copied as well as the other attributes of the AutoShape.

Show Tip

You can copy all attributes of an object to several objects by double-clicking Format Painter , and then selecting several objects in succession. Click Format Painter again when you're done.