Format Painter Shortcut : What is Format Painter Shortcut? :Format Painter Shortcut is not Working

What is format painter?

Format painter is the most popular tool use to copy whole character styles and numbering from one paragraph to another. It is shown as a blue-yellow brush in Clipboard in Home tap. These are the steps to use the tool.

• Put your courser on paragraph where you need to copy the styles.
• Click on the brush button(Format Painter tool) in clipboard, Home tap. You can double click on the brush to apply the same styles again and again. Mouse pointer will be brush shape after you clicked on it, means format is ready to use.
• Click on paragraph where you want to use the styles. Better is to click on beginning of the paragraph. See the magic happens.

Format painter Shortcut

There are simple two shortcuts keys to use the tool handy.

Ctrl+Shift+C

To copy format(Styles) of paragraph. Don’t forget to set courser where you want to copy.

Ctrl+Shift+V  

To paste the format to other paragraphs.

After you copied a format with this shortcut, courser won’t be changed to brush. Format is copied and saved in clipboard temporarily.

Why doesn’t the shortcut work?

First of all, you have to know one thing. Courser won’t be turned into brush shape. So, you may think the shortcut is not working.

You may set Macros Record in ms word or other activity in another program with the keyboard same shortcut. Read about magical Macros in ms word click here.

What are the benefits of the shortcut?

You can do anything else while keeping a format in clipboard. When you are using the shortcut, you don’t need to worry about one click or double click. Once you have copied the format , it won’t change until you copy again with Ctrl+Shift+C shortcut. So, you can do many other editing in the mean time. You can use the format at any time you want to use. You can do editing fast with help of the Format Painter and Macro Recordings in ms word. Your comments are welcomed.

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