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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Copying Attributes With the Format Paintbrush</title>
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<created date="2004-07-22T13:04:54">UFI: Using the Format Paintbrush</created>
<lastedited date="2005-04-28T15:36:46">dedr: reviewed</lastedited>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1053A" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="NEW"><variable id="formatpaintbrush"><link href="text/shared/guide/paintbrush.xhp">Copying Formatting With the Format Paintbrush</link>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10655" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">You can use the Format Paintbrush tool to copy formatting from a text selection or object and apply the formatting to another text selection or object.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN106DD" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Select the text or object whose formatting you want to copy.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10667" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">On the <emph>Standard Bar</emph>, click the <emph>Format Paintbrush</emph> icon.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10660" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">The cursor changes to a paint bucket.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="tip" id="par_idN10663" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">If you want to apply the formatting to more than one selection, double-click the <emph>Format Paintbrush</emph> icon 
<image id="img_id209967" src="res/commandimagelist/sc_formatpaintbrush.png" width="0.1665inch" height="0.1665inch"><alt id="alt_id209967" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt>
	</image>. After you apply all the formatting, click the icon again.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1066E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Select or click the text or object that you want to apply the formatting to.</paragraph>
</listitem>
</list>
<paragraph role="tip" id="par_idN10716" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">To exclude paragraph formatting, hold down Ctrl when you click. To exclude character formatting, hold down Ctrl+Shift when you click.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10671" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">The following table describes the formatting attributes that the <emph>Format Paintbrush</emph> can copy:<comment>UFI: do we need this?</comment></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_idN10691" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Type of Selection</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_idN10697" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Comment</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN1069E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Nothing selected, but cursor is inside a text passage</paragraph>
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<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN106A4" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Copies the formatting of the current paragraph and the character formatting of the next character in the text flow direction.</paragraph>
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<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN106AB" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Text is selected</paragraph>
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<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN106B1" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Copies the formatting of the last selected character and of the paragraph that contains the character.</paragraph>
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<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN106B8" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Frame is selected</paragraph>
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<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN106BE" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Copies the frame attributes that are defined in Format - Frame dialog. The contents, size, position, linking, hyperlinks, and macros in the frame are not copied.</paragraph>
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<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN106C5" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Object is selected</paragraph>
</tablecell>
<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN106CB" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Copies the object formatting that is defined in the Format - Graphics or Format - Object dialogs. The contents, size, position, hyperlinks, and macros in the object are not copied.</paragraph>
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<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN106D2" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Form control is selected</paragraph>
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<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN106D8" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Not supported</paragraph>
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<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN106DF" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Drawing object is selected</paragraph>
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<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN106E5" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Copies all formatting attributes. In Impress and Draw, the text contents of the object is also copied.</paragraph>
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<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN106EC" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Text within drawing object or within Calc cells is selected</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN106F2" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Not supported</paragraph>
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<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN106F9" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Writer table or cells are selected</paragraph>
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<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN106FF" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Copies the formatting that is specified in Table, Text Flow, Borders, and Background tab pages in the Format - Table dialog. The paragraph and character formatting are also copied.</paragraph>
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<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN10706" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Calc table or cells are selected</paragraph>
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<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
<paragraph role="tablecontent" id="par_idN1070C" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Copies the formatting that is specified in the Format - Cells dialog as well as the formatting of the cell contents</paragraph>
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