Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Copying Paragraph Formatting with the Mouse.
Often it is beneficial to copy paragraph formatting from one place in your document to another. Word provides a quick way you can do this by using the mouse:
You can also copy the same format repeatedly by double clicking the Format Painter tool in step 2. You will then be able to apply the same formatting until you turn off format painting by clicking on the tool one more time or by pressing Esc.
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2015-10-07 23:52:13
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Ned Tugent
This is virtually useless w/o an image of the format painter icon
2012-03-08 22:36:21
Allan Corfield
If you are using a mouse, triple clicking inside a paragraph will select the whole paragraph.
That is also a useful trick to discover whether a slab of text is a single paragraph (^p) or has embedded newlines (^l). Triple clicking will select the entire paragraph, new lines (^l) included.
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