Pump up the Format Paintbrush with a double-click

I sometimes wish I could just format my documents with mind control. But until I develop that power, there are several options. Styles. The toolbar. And to speed things up once you've done things right, the Format Painbrush icon.

So. This is how it usually works.

You have some text. You format one part of it the way you want. It's got maybe three or four different formatting attributes, so a pain to do it over and over again.

So you select the piece that's formatted

And click the Format Paintbrush icon once

And move your mouse to another word (you see the effect of the Format Paintbrush icon because your mouse pointer is now a paint bucket)

And select it, and you get the same formatting. But nowyou're done. You have to click the Format Paintbrush icon again to get more formatting juice.

So to keep formatting as long as you want, then select the formatted text like you normally would, then doubleclick the Format Paintbrush icon.

Then keep selecting as many words or letters as you want to have formatted the same way as the text you selected.

Click the Format Paintbrush icon once when you're done to stop the formatting.

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Comments

[Tyler]

Beautiful trick--definitely have to share this with the production dept.

Never would have guessed!