Hello,



I have a table with 3 rows and 5 columns. I've formatted the first cell of the table (text align, background color). I want to copy the cell formatting and use the formatting to quickly set other cells in my table. How to accomplish such a task? (
I've tried:
- Styles - I guess I can only save a whole table style, not a table cell style
- Format Painter - upon copying and pasting the formatting, the tool sets the background color of the text in a new cell instead of a background color of a cell

Regards.

Hi pakistanray,

Paragraph Styles should be used to manage anything to do with text formatting (including text background colour). Used correctly, there's then nothing in that regard to copy - simply re-apply the desired Style to the relevant cells. As for cell attributes (borders, shading etc), I think you'd need a macro to do the replication.

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Paul Edstein
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Thank you for the response, macropod.