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Heather has attended:
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Format Painter

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RE: Format Painter

Hello Heather

Thank you for your question.

The Format Painter is a 'copy and paste' for formatting.

So for example if you have formatted a cell containing a number to have decimal places, a pounds sign and have added borders to the cell and you want another cell or cells containing numbers to look the same, you can use the format painter to copy the formats from one cell to others.

I hope this helps.
Amanda

 

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