Format Painter

Quick reference

• 00:05 Hello, in this lesson we're going to use the format painter button.
• 00:07 It is absolutely one of my most favorite buttons in Microsoft Word.
• 00:12 It's located in a couple places.
• 00:14 On the home ribbon right over here on the left is your format painter.
• 00:18 I also have it on my quick access bar way over here on the right hand side.
• 00:21 Click access bar, and notice when you float your mouse there.
• 00:24 It gives you a complete instruction tutorial on how to use it and
• 00:27 what it does.
• 00:28 Also, the keyboard shortcuts.
• 00:30 If you are willing to learn that and remember that.
• 00:32 I just kind of like hitting the actual button cuz it's cute.
• 00:36 There's one other place as well.
• 00:37 So I'm gonna go ahead and highlight the first line that I like.
• 00:40 And my mini bar pops up and there it is on the mini bar as well.
• 00:44 Just so you know it's there.
• 00:45 Now the purpose is to copy format, not text.
• 00:48 But the format that we like and apply it to a line that needs to be formatted.
• 00:53 So I'll go ahead and do that.
• 00:54 I've highlighted topic one bold in red.
• 00:56 It's already highlighted.
• 00:57 I'm gonna click my format painter.
• 00:59 I'm gonna bring my mouse down here.
• 01:01 And notice the cute little paintbrush attached to my I beam.
• 01:04 That tells me it's ready to apply the formats.
• 01:07 So I just literally click and drag and
• 01:09 wipe it, paint it, over the line I want to apply it to.
• 01:12 There you go.
• 01:13 I didn't have to figure out what color red, what size, anything.
• 01:16 It's all done.
• 01:17 Let's do this again to the next blue line.
• 01:20 I can use the one on the home ribbon this time.
• 01:22 Click that one. Come down here with the paint brush, and
• 01:24 apply it to the line.
• 01:26 Perfect.
• 01:27 Now the green one.
• 01:27 I highlight the formatting that I like.
• 01:31 This time the one on the quick access part.
• 01:32 It doesn't matter.
• 01:33 It's the same button.
• 01:34 It's a personal preference on where you want to click, that's all.
• 01:37 I have a cute little paint brush attached to my mouse, click and drag, there we go.
• 01:41 And then the last one.
• 01:42 Same thing. This time I'm just going to,
• 01:43 instead of click and drag.
• 01:44 Just gonna move my mouse into the margin.
• 01:46 Click once, selects an entire line.
• 01:49 Click the format page here.
• 01:51 Come out here.
• 01:52 It's now, when I move the mouse in.
• 01:54 I see the paintbrush. When I come out here to
• 01:55 the margin, I don't.
• 01:57 But believe me, it's going to work.
• 01:59 There you go.
• 02:00 Awesome.
• 02:00 So when you click once, you get to use it once.
• 02:03 Now what we're gonna do, is we're gonna apply topic one format to this one, and
• 02:07 topic one format to this one.
• 02:09 So we'll have to use it more than once.
• 02:11 Come right back up here, select the line, this time I'm gonna double click.
• 02:15 Click, click, the format painter.
• 02:17 Now it's going to be on until I turn it off.
• 02:19 So topic one right here, and topic one right here.
• 02:24 And notice when I move my mouse it's still on the paper just still attached my IV,
• 02:28 got to turn this off.
• 02:29 Two ways to do it.
• 02:30 You can just go up here and turn this off the button,
• 02:32 or you can also press the Escape on your keyboard and that will turn it off.
• 02:36 So two ways, click the button to turn off or hit Escape.
• 02:39 Let's do let see, topic two.
• 02:41 Select the font you like, the format you like.
• 02:45 Double click the paint brush to use it multiple times.
• 02:47 And then just apply it where you want it by clicking in writing or
• 02:51 just clicking in the margin.
• 02:53 Awesome.
• 02:53 That's still on.
• 02:54 So I gotta turn it off.
• 02:55 So I'm gonna click to turn it off.
• 02:57 There you go.
• 02:57 Last one, number three.
• 02:58 And I'm only gonna use this once.
• 02:59 So click it once, to use it once.
• 03:01 And there you go.
• 03:03 It's awesome, please use this, please learn it.
• 03:05 Such an incredible, valuable tool.
• 03:07 It will save you so much reconstruction work on a document.
• 03:12 If you just find one that's already the way you like it, highlight the text,
• 03:17 paint format, paste the format.
• 03:20 Awesome.
• 03:21 Thank you!

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