Applying a Style

The Format Painter copies and pastes formatting from one batch of selected text to another without copying the text. When you want to apply multiple groupings of formatting, save each as a style. A style is a collection of formatting settings saved with a name in a document or template that you can apply to text at any time. If you modify a style, you make the change once, but all text tagged with that style changes to reflect the new format.

Copy a Style with the Format Painter

Select the text with the formatting you want to copy.

Click the Format Painter button on the Standard toolbar.

Select the text you want to format with the Format Painter pointer.

Apply a Style

Select the text to which you want to apply a style.

Click the Styles And Formatting button on the Formatting toolbar.

Click the style you want to apply.

Did You Know?

Additional styles are available within a document . Open the Styles And Formatting task pane, click the Show list arrow, and then click All Styles.

You can also request a style by name . Click or type a style name in the Style box on the Formatting toolbar.