Copying multiple formats

The format painter tool allows you to copy multiple formats from selected text to other parts of a file. It is normally used to copy heading styles from one heading to another, which can save a huge amount of time instead of repeating formatting manually over and over on each individual heading:

1. Select some text to format.
2. Format the text—for instance, set it to bold or underline or change the font color to blue, the font size to 20, or the font face to Courgette.
3. Make sure the text stays selected once the formatting is complete.
4. Double-click on the Format Painter icon located under the Clipboard group:

5. Double-clicking on the Format Painter icon allows you to copy the formatting more than once.
6. Notice that the mouse pointer changes to a brush shape when hovering over text in the document:

7. Select the next heading in the document to apply the format. Once this is complete, you will see that the text is now formatted in the same way as the first heading. 
8. Repeat this process until each of your document headings have the new format.
9. To stop the format painter, simply put the icon back in place by clicking on the format painter icon on the ribbon. Alternatively, press the Esc key on your keyboard.