Excel's format painter doesn't just work with cell formatting—you can also duplicate formatting between shapes, charts, text boxes, and most other items in your spreadsheet.

Q. Format Painter is a very handy tool for copying a format style from one place to another, but it seems to work with only one section at a time. Is there a way to get it to work like a rubber stamp ...

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