- [Narrator] In this video,
we'll see a great tool for quickly applying
the same formatting to different parts of a document.
Let's start by formatting some text.
I'm going to select this here.
This is the name of an event that we're planning
so we really want to accent that.
To apply some formatting, naturally,
we'll go to the Home ribbon and I want to mark it
as bold and italics.
And I'm also going to change the color of the text.
So in this menu, I'm going to switch it to red
and that really makes it stand out.
And now, I want to apply that same formatting
to some of the other places where that event is mentioned.
Now, of course I could make a style
but another quick way to do that is with the Format Painter.
And the way this works is you select the original text.
Then in the Home ribbon,
you want to go to the Format Painter and click on that
to activate it.
I know that it's activated because it looks like
that button is being held down.
As long as the Format Painter is activated,
I can select another piece of text and we'll see that that
formatting has been pasted to it.
And now the Format Painter is no longer active.
That button is not being held down.
So you can sample the formatting from pretty much anything
and then apply that formatting to a word or a phrase
or even large selections of text.
So I could select this
and then I could activate the Format Painter.
And then I could select a large chunk.
I'm actually going to select two full paragraphs of text.
And as soon as I finished selecting it,
you'll see that that formatting has been pasted over.
You can see how that works
but I don't want to actually do this.
So I'll click the Undo button in the Quick Access toolbar.
So the Format Painter is incredibly useful
in two situations.
One is where you just want to quickly take the format
of one piece of text and apply it to another.
But here's another scenario.
Maybe you're editing a document that somebody else created.
You see some texts formatted in a particular way,
but you can't necessarily tell exactly what formatting
has been applied to it just by looking at it.
In that case, you can just copy the formatting
using the Format Painter.