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| <h3>Is there something like a Format Painter feature that copies the formats of one part of the text to other parts?</h3> |
| |
| <P>There are two possibilities within OOo Writer. |
| For the first, follow these steps: |
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| <UL> |
| <LI>Make the changes that you want, then, with the cursor still in the |
| paragraph, open the Stylist and then you can either |
| <ul> |
| <li>1. Highlight a portion of the text, hold down the left mouse button and |
| drag the text over the style name then release the mouse button, or |
| <li>2. Left click on the very far right icon in the Stylist header. This icon |
| is called Update Style. |
| </ul> |
| <li>Now, if the changes you have made haven't been transferred already to |
| the other relevant parts of your text, click on the "Fill Format" |
| icon in the Stylist, which is the third from the right. |
| The button is a toggle - so click once to turn the feature on, |
| and click again to turn it off. |
| <li>Once it is on, select the style from |
| the list to which you've just made the changes, |
| then click into the text area |
| that you want to change. |
| </UL> |
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| <P>Another solution would be to actually add a button that acts like a |
| format painter: It's an unofficial, but excellent addon written by the Francophone |
| project. It adds two paintbrush icons to the tool bar, which copy and paint |
| styles. Get it from here: |
| http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=23756 |
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