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Tip: Format Painter - Multi-select
Posted by Rod in Old-blog-archives at 9:30 pm on Thursday, 27 April 2006

The Format Painter is in most Office applications including Visio. It’s found as a toolbar button. The Format Painter allows you to copy formatting from one item to another.

It works as follows:

  1. ‘Select’ the item with the formatting you desire
  2. ‘Click’ on the the Format Painter toolbar button (Format Painter). It is now selected.
  3. ‘Select’ the item to apply the formatting too. 
  4. The Format Painter is now unselected (I’m building up to the tip).

I use the Format Painter a lot, especially in Visio. Often I want to format a number of objects the same.  But I used to have to keep re-selecting the first object.

So the tip is: To keep the Format Painter selected, ‘double click’ it. ‘Click’ it again to stop applying formats.

Simple, but this knowledge will vastly improve your Visio experience. Send $1 to …

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