Is there a keystroke combo for Format Painter?

You can copy and paste formats similar to what the Format Painter does, using
Ctrl+Shift+c to copy format and Ctrl+Shift+v to paste format. Hope this is
what you are looking for.

"Meg" wrote:

Is there a keystroke combo for Format Painter?

As SVC says, you can use Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V to copy and paste
formats. This is actually more useful than the Format Painter because a
copied format remains available until you copy a different one and can be
repeatedly pasted at any time, despite other intervening actions.

The behavior of these shortcuts depends on the selection. If you have text
selected, then just the font formatting is copied and pasted, if you have a
paragraph selected, then both paragraph and font formatting will be copied
and pasted. If nothing is selected, the formatting of the paragraph is
copied, along with the font formatting at the insertion point.

This last point is important when a paragraph contains mixed font
formatting; for example, if a paragraph contains a few italicized words and
you happen to click in one of them when you copy, then when you paste the
format, the entire selected text will be italicized.

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Is there a keystroke combo for Format Painter?