Decorating made simple: Crabby's Daily Tip

The Format Painter,  is one of the most handy little features I know. It's a way to copy any formatting you want to duplicate: fonts, shading, borders, and more.

You basically select the text that you want to copy, click the Format Painter button and then select the text to which you want to apply formatting. If you want to apply the same formatting to more than one item, select the formatting you want, double-click Format Painter, and then select each word, phrase, or paragraph you want to apply formatting to. When you're finished, press ESC. No guessing, no multiple steps, and you can use the Format Painter in just about any Office program.