Microsoft Office 2003 All-in-One

If your presentation contains text with a format you want to use, you can copy that text's format and apply it to other text on the slide (or other slides). To copy text formats, perform the following steps:

1. Highlight the text with the format you want to use.

2. Click the Format Painter button on the toolbar. PowerPoint copies the format.

3. Drag the mouse pointer (which now looks like the Format Painter icon) across the text to which you want to apply the format.

If you want to apply a format to different text lines or even different text boxes on a slide or slides, double-click the Format Painter button. Use the mouse to apply styles to as many text items as you want. Then, click the Format Painter button again to turn off the feature.