Did you know that you can use Format Painter in Excel to quickly copy formatting from one cell or range of cells and apply it to another cell or range of cells? It’s a great way to save time and keep your spreadsheets looking consistent! https://www.selectdistinct.co.uk/2023/04/18/format-painter-in-excel/ #Excel #ExcelTips #FormatPainter

1. Excel Tips
and Timesavers
Format Painter
in Excel

2. Why use format painter in Excel?
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3. Quite often you need to Format a range of data to match an existing layout
You could go through each row
manually setting the formats to
match
But this takes too long
Luckily Excel has a really simple
way to copy the formats
Format Painter

4. Lets see it in action
Select the range you want to copy the
format from
Click the format painter icon
Select the range you want to copy the
format to, whilst keeping the left mouse
button pressed
Let go of the mouse button and all of
the formats are applied in one go

5. You can do partial ranges too
If you need to select only parts of a
range to copy the format from, you
can do that too
This can save hours of work if you
have never used it

6. Format painter in Excel is a really efficient way to copy the look and feel
from one part of a spreadsheet to another
Once you have mastered it you will save countless hours

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