Hold your brush pen close to the nib. The “nib” of a brush pen is the marker part of the pen. Holding your brush pen right above the nib will give you the most control over your brush. Use a paintbrush comb or small wire brush to clean the bristles. The younger Kate, in contrast, turned her own schoolgirl training with a paintbrush into a career. Emma sat at the edge of the forest with a pad of paper on her lap, a cup of water in the sand, a paintbrush in one hand and a plastic tray filled with colors in the other. On the Home tab, click Format Painter. The pointer changes to a paintbrush icon. Use the brush to paint over a selection of text or graphics to apply the formatting. This only works once.
BY STANLEY ZAROWIN
Q. Format Painter is a very handy tool for copying a format style from one place toanother, but it seems to work with only one section at a time. Is therea way to get it to work like a rubber stamp in as many different placesas I wish?
A. Yes, there is, but before I show you, I want readers to understand how to use Format Painter , which is in your Word and Excel toolbar and looks like a paintbrush.
Let’s say you have a word (or a sentence or paragraph or spreadsheet cell) whose format you’d like to replicate in another part of your document or worksheet. Begin by highlighting the source word (or whatever it is) and then click on Format Painter . As you move your cursor, it instantly will change to a small paintbrush. Wipe it across the words or cells to which you want the new formatting to apply and click again. That’s it: The target text or cell will have the new formatting.
Now to answer your question—how can you use the Format Painter on multiple sections of your document or spreadsheet without going back each time to copy the format source? After you highlight the formatted characters you want to copy, double-click on the Format Painter and paint the formatting style anywhere you want. The cursor-turned-paintbrush will remain as long as you wish. To turn it off, press Esc or click again on the Format Painter icon.
If Format Painter is not in your toolbar, click on Tools , Customize , the Commands tab and then Format. Cursor down the list and when you find the paintbrush icon just drag it up to your toolbar.
We start with a new presentation or slide, with an acro gymnastics picture. I want to create a flyer for the new acro cup event. As you can see, next to the images, there are some two text boxes with some white text in it.
Let’s format the first text box. Use another font and increase the font size. Finally, we will choose another color.
Imagine that you want to format the second text box in the same way as the first text box. Then repeat these 3 steps:
- Change the font
- Set the font size
- Select the new color
This is repetitive work and this is risky to make mistakes so that the 2 (or more) text boxes are not formatted identical.
There is a great tool in PowerPoint that is called the format painter. First, select the text box that is formatted already and that we want to copy. Then click the Format Painter icon or button of the Home menu.
When you move the cursor over your slide, you will see that your mouse pointer is changed into a paint brush.
Move this special mouse pointer or paint brush now over the other text box.
Click with the paint brush on the other text box to apply the same formatting settings on this other text box.
As you can see, exactly the same formatting like font, font size and font color, are applied on the text box when clicked. After that, the cursor changes into the normal mouse pointer, and the format painter functionality is over.
Another great trick that I have to share with you.
Using Paintbrush In Word Documents
When you double-click the format painter button, then you can paste the formatting settings on multiple text boxes. With a single click on the format painter, you can apply the formatting on the next shape that you click, and then the format painter functionality stops. With a format painter double click, you can click multiple other shapes to apply the same formatting. The pasting of the format painter stops when you hit the ESC key.
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