How do I copy/paste text style into multiple cells in Numbers?

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DSmithDallas Author

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How do I copy/paste text style into multiple cells in Numbers?

How do I copy and paste text style into multiple cells?

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Posted on Mar 12, 2024 8:13 AM

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SGIII

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Mar 12, 2024 11:07 PM in response to DSmithDallas

One way is to right-click the Toolbar and drag the Copy Style and Paste Style icons onto it (a one-time task).

Then:

select the cell with style you want to copy
click Copy Style in the Toolbar
select the cells that you want to have the same style
click Paste Style in the Toolbar

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DSmithDallas Author

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Mar 13, 2024 8:30 AM in response to SGIII

This does not work at all. Nothing happens when I right click on the menu item. And besides, even using the items from the menu does not work. When I copy the style from the menu, if it only has the cell highlighted, then it will only copy the "Cell Style", i.e. background color, borders etc. If I highlight text within the cell, it will copy the text format, such as font, text color, underline etc.

Now, the problem occurs when I copy some text, say, from a website, then after pasting it, I want to copy the text format from an existing cell, then paste it onto the copied cells, it won't work with multiple cells, it only works with cell styles.

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SGIII

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Mar 13, 2024 9:22 AM in response to DSmithDallas

DSmithDallas wrote:

This does not work at all. Nothing happens when I right click on the menu item.

It depends on what you mean by "this":) Are you on the Mac? If so, don't try to right-click a menu item. Instead right-click the Toolbar. That way you can change the toolbar just the way you can in many Mac applications. You right-click it and drag icons onto it.

Customize the toolbar in Numbers on Mac - Apple Support (CA)

Thereafter to copy a style to multiple cells just follow the four steps in my list.

If you are having trouble with unwanted formatting when pasting in text from a website then instead of Edit > Paste or command-v have you tried Edit > Paste and Match Style? The keyboard shortcut for that is shift-option-command-v.

SG

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How do I copy/paste text style into multiple cells in Numbers?

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