Paintbrush tool

[Oliver Burnett-Hall <olly-bh blueyonder co uk>]

On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 17:42, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 12:08:58PM -0700, Christopher E. Welton wrote:
> > 2. Having a format-painting tool similar to the paintbrush 
> > (?) tool in Excel would be excellent. Basically something 
> > to select the formatting of one or more cells and then 
> > apply that formatting to other cells.
> I have never used this tool.  A quick test suggests it is the same
> as copying the source region and pasting the formats into the
> destination.  Is that correct ?

Yes, that's exactly what it does.

Don't know if you noticed, but the paintbrush tool in Excel has 
got two modes:
  o single-click the button and it will copy the formats into the 
    next cell you click in.
  o double-click the button and it will carry on doing this until 
    you tell it to stop by clicking the button again (much more
    useful like this, IMHO).

- olly