Learn how to use the Format Painter command effectively to copy text attributes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows. This technique only copies text formatting, and leave any other formatting uncopied.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 and higher
PowerPoint 2013's Format Painter option does an absolutely amazing job of copying all the formatting attributes from one slide object to another. For instance, you can copy all attributes of a shape (and even the text that the shape contains) to another shape, text box, or even a text placeholder. However, this is an all-or-nothing option. Sometimes, you may want to just copy the text formatting attributes, without copying the shape fill or any of the other shape attributes. This can be even more confusing when the text itself is formatted in more than one style. See Figure 1, below where text within a text box is formatted in two different styles. While the word "Text" uses a texture fill with a glow, the word "Box" uses a picture fill. Selecting the entire text box, and then copying its attributes to another text box using the Format Painter will never replicate two text styles. So, clearly there has to be a better way! We explain the better way in this tutorial.
Figure 1: Text with two different styles within a text box
Let us imagine we want to copy only the text formatting of word "Box", and ignore the pink fill of the container text box, and also the way the word "Text" is formatted. To learn how to do that in PowerPoint 2013, follow these steps:
See Also:
Copying Text Attributes With Format Painter in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
Copying Text Attributes With Format Painter in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows
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