Quick style changes by using Paint Brush equivalent

If you want toolbar accessibility to this feature, go to the View menu and choose "Customize Toolbar...", the drag the "Copy Style" and "Paste Style" icons to the toolbar. These icons function much like the equivalent in Word.

ellent wrote:
and like magic the selected text takes on the same style as the text in step one.

Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. I'm still trying to figure out how Word applies styles. It is far from intuitive or logical.

If you want it to work for more than one click, double-click the paintbrush icon instead of clicking it. It will then remain active until you click the icon again. That much I have figured out.

What I don't get is how it decides, for example, which character styles to copy when you select a whole paragraph with mixed character styles. From a perspective of "what would be useful," I'd expect it to not copy any character styles, because it should be obvious that the user is interested only in the paragraph formatting. Instead, it arbitrarily chooses one, for example bold if there is one word in bold in the entire paragraph, and applies it to the paragraph you select to apply the paragraph formatting to, obliterating any character formatting it may have already contained. Not only do I fail to see the usefulness of that, but I simply can't follow the logic: "the model paragraph has one word in bold; therefore the user must want every word in bold in every target paragraph, regardless of any character formatting already applied"????

It never ceases to amaze me how Microsoft can occasionally come up with a halfway decent idea for a feature, and then completely ruin it in the implementation. Something is seriously wrong with their design-development process, because I'm sure the person who came up with the idea (or appropriated it from another software company) couldn't have envisioned it working this way.