Format Painter

Quick reference

• 00:04 Welcome to my favorite lesson on the Format Painter.
• 00:08 In my opinion, the Format Painter on the Home ribbon, this cute little paintbrush
• 00:12 right here, one of the best buttons ever invented by Microsoft, my goodness.
• 00:17 Let's go ahead and use it.
• 00:18 The rule is you first must select what you want to copy,
• 00:22 what format you want to copy.
• 00:23 So right now this Topic 1, Bold and Red, I'm selecting the format I like.
• 00:28 I didn't even have to select the whole line, it could have just been the word.
• 00:32 And now I come up to the Home ribbon and I click once on the Format Painter.
• 00:36 Before I click, notice, the tooltip popped up and the title of the tooltip shows
• 00:41 you Ctrl + Shift + C to copy the format, Ctrl + Shift + V to paste the format.
• 00:46 If you want to memorize that, that's your personal preference.
• 00:49 Me personally, I haven't memorized it, I just like hitting the paintbrush.
• 00:53 So I'm going to click it once and I get to use it once, so
• 00:56 I'm now going to bring my mouse down into the text.
• 00:59 Notice the cute little paintbrush attached to my mouse?
• 01:01 Well, I simply click and drag and it will apply the format.
• 01:05 I stopped short for some reason, let's go get that again.
• 01:08 Hit that one more time and just finish up that line, there we go.
• 01:12 Now you notice I said click it once, you see, if you click it once,
• 01:15 you get to use it once.
• 01:16 If you double-click that Format Painter,
• 01:18 you get to use it as many times as you want.
• 01:20 Let's go ahead and do this one.
• 01:21 Topic 2, I selected the line and check this out, my minibar came up,
• 01:25 and there's a cute little paintbrush right there.
• 01:28 This time I'm going to double-click it, I don't use it multiple times.
• 01:31 Double click it, I'm going to bring my mouse down into the line below.
• 01:35 I can click and drag from the right to the left if I want.
• 01:38 And notice my little paintbrush is still there.
• 01:42 So I can come over to the right hand side where it says, Apply Topic 2,
• 01:47 and now I'm done with it.
• 01:49 Now, you have to turn this thing off, it will stay on until you tell it to stop.
• 01:54 So in order to do that, there's two ways.
• 01:57 I can go up to the tool and turn it off or I can press Escape on my keyboard,
• 02:01 the Escape key, top left hand corner of your keyboard, I always hit that one.
• 02:07 And now it's all off and you can tell the square vanished off my Format Painter.
• 02:12 Okay, let's do some more of this.
• 02:13 I've got Topic 3 right here.
• 02:16 I'm going to double click the Format Painter on the minibar.
• 02:20 I'm going to apply it to right underneath and over on the right hand side.
• 02:26 I'm just clicking on the margin area in front of this, but
• 02:29 notice that little paintbrush is still there, hitting Escape to turn it off.
• 02:34 Okay, how about Topic 4, Bold and Underline.
• 02:37 I'm going to just apply this once, click the Format Painter once, and
• 02:42 apply it once.
• 02:43 And what did I miss up here?
• 02:44 Topic 1 and Topic 2, let's finish it up.
• 02:46 Grabbing Topic 1, double-click the paintbrush, click click,
• 02:51 come in over here, click and drag over Topic 1 here, Topic 1 here.
• 02:55 And I missed the Topic 2 earlier, we'll grab it real quick.
• 02:58 Oops, see what happened?
• 03:00 I forgot to turn it off and I applied Topic 1.
• 03:02 So, Ctrl + Z will undo.
• 03:05 The undo button right up here, or press Ctrl + Z will undo if you went too far.
• 03:10 That's the danger of not remembering to turn off that Format Painter.
• 03:15 Topic 2 is still selected, hit my paintbrush once, come over here and
• 03:19 apply it, and that's it.
• 03:21 Have fun with the Format Painter, it's fantastic.

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