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Format Painter not working in Word 2010
I am using Word 2010, trying to format a document in a prescribed format.
With previous versions of Word, if I highlighted a word, sentence, paragraph, bulleted item, etc., I could use the format painter to copy every detail of the format to a new section of text. With Word 2010 very little of the original format is copied over, maybe the font, or font size, but never the indenting, bulleting, etc., which was what made format painter so useful. In fact sometimes it changes the font to something totally unrelated to either the copy from or copy to text. I have reinstalled office, and done a repair, but this is my only issue. Is there a setting somewhere that I have to change to make sure that ALL the formatting copies to the new text? And I do know you can copy then used the drop-down paste format only option, but I would like the format painter to work as it should. |
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Answer: Format Painter not working in Word 2010
I'm sorry to hear that you're having trouble with the Format Painter in Word 2010. Here are a few things you can try to get it working properly:
I hope one of these solutions works for you!
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Format Painter not working in Word 2010
I don't see an issue with the Format Painter here, also using Word 2010. Note
that in order to copy paragraph formatting (indentation, line spacing, etc.) you must select the *whole* paragraph before using the painter. Also, note that if the selection includes multiple font settings, the Format Painter won't "catch" all of them. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "MicheleS1" wrote in message ... I am using Word 2010, trying to format a document in a prescribed format. With previous versions of Word, if I highlighted a word, sentence, paragraph, bulleted item, etc., I could use the format painter to copy every detail of the format to a new section of text. With Word 2010 very little of the original format is copied over, maybe the font, or font size, but never the indenting, bulleting, etc., which was what made format painter so useful. In fact sometimes it changes the font to something totally unrelated to either the copy from or copy to text. I have reinstalled office, and done a repair, but this is my only issue. Is there a setting somewhere that I have to change to make sure that ALL the formatting copies to the new text? And I do know you can copy then used the drop-down paste format only option, but I would like the format painter to work as it should. |
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Format Painter not working in Word 2010
Do you experience the same problem if you use the built-in shortcuts
Ctrl+Shift+C (Copy Format) and Ctrl+Shift+V (Paste Format)? Note that, unless you have a paragraph mark selected or have the selection collapsed to a point (no text selected), paragraph formatting will not be copied, only font formatting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MicheleS1" wrote in message ... I am using Word 2010, trying to format a document in a prescribed format. With previous versions of Word, if I highlighted a word, sentence, paragraph, bulleted item, etc., I could use the format painter to copy every detail of the format to a new section of text. With Word 2010 very little of the original format is copied over, maybe the font, or font size, but never the indenting, bulleting, etc., which was what made format painter so useful. In fact sometimes it changes the font to something totally unrelated to either the copy from or copy to text. I have reinstalled office, and done a repair, but this is my only issue. Is there a setting somewhere that I have to change to make sure that ALL the formatting copies to the new text? And I do know you can copy then used the drop-down paste format only option, but I would like the format painter to work as it should. |
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Format Painter not working in Word 2010
This seems to be working on my bulleting. I'll post back with other issues
as I have done work-arounds to avoid some of them. Thanks, Michele "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Do you experience the same problem if you use the built-in shortcuts Ctrl+Shift+C (Copy Format) and Ctrl+Shift+V (Paste Format)? Note that, unless you have a paragraph mark selected or have the selection collapsed to a point (no text selected), paragraph formatting will not be copied, only font formatting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MicheleS1" wrote in message ... I am using Word 2010, trying to format a document in a prescribed format. With previous versions of Word, if I highlighted a word, sentence, paragraph, bulleted item, etc., I could use the format painter to copy every detail of the format to a new section of text. With Word 2010 very little of the original format is copied over, maybe the font, or font size, but never the indenting, bulleting, etc., which was what made format painter so useful. In fact sometimes it changes the font to something totally unrelated to either the copy from or copy to text. I have reinstalled office, and done a repair, but this is my only issue. Is there a setting somewhere that I have to change to make sure that ALL the formatting copies to the new text? And I do know you can copy then used the drop-down paste format only option, but I would like the format painter to work as it should. |
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