Click on the cell that you want to take formatting from. If you click once on the Format Painter, you can then click on another cell and it will receive the formatting from the other cell and the Format Painter will be deactivated. If you double click on the Format Painter, then it is turned on until you click on it again, meaning you can apply formatting to lots of cells.
single click the format button
(Home Tab-Clipboard)
In the Clipboard group, click the Format Painter button once to turn of the command off, Alternatively, press the ESC button on you keyboard to turn off. Source: Go!Office 2007
The button that you can use to apply multiple formatting style to selected cell is called format painter (the icon is a little brush on the "standard" toolbar). The way it works is as follows: 1/ select an area of the spreadsheet that already have the formatting that you want to use. 2/ click on the format painter button on the standard toolbar. 3/ select the area of the spreadsheet where you want to copy the formatting. That's all. Note that if you want to apply the same formatting in several places, you can double click on the format painter button in step 2/ instead of a single click. Then you can do step 3/ several times. When you are finished, click again on the format painter button to deactivate it.
It is in the Clipboard group.
Yes. The Format Painter can take the formatting from one thing and paste it onto another.
No. It looks like a paint brush.
If you double click the Format Painter button on the Standard Toolbar, you can apply the painter to multiple items until you click the button again to turn it off. Of course, if the items you want to apply it to are adjacent, you don't have to double click. Just drag the mouse across the items. When you release the mouse button, the painter is off, as usual.
No. It only copies the formatting. It does not copy content.
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The Format Painter.