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Format Painter Not Working
Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening, My format painter is not working. I'm not trying to do anything complex. Just the basic positioning of text inside a cell, the font, and the date format. When I highl...
Kim_Heslin It's, as we say in my part of the world. squirrely. I managed to get format painter in Excel to work. Once.
I think we can assume that the function was meant to copy Word, but the two applications are so different that the underlying code cannot be duplicated in Excel. Hence the developers did their best to imitate the behavior in Word, but it likely got away from them.
In any case, as is true with everything Microsoft, we're the beta testers. Hence, the best thing you could probably do is provide feedback to MS, as is expected of beta testers. Navigate to the Home, click Help, and then Feedback - Report a Problem.
Good luck.