The Format Painter will turn off automatically.
(Optional) Reselect the Show/Hide button to hide the paragraph marks (see figure 2). The text should immediately receive the new formatting. Use the paintbrush cursor to select the text that should receive the formatting.įigure 6. Select the Format Painter button in the Clipboard group. Example text with selection away from paragraph mark To only copy the font-level formatting, copy text from earlier in the paragraph. Example text selected with paragraph markģ.b. To copy the paragraph-level formatting (e.g., bullets, alignment, spacing) with the font-level formatting, select the text with the closing paragraph mark. Select the text with the format you want to copy.ģ.a. Select the Show/Hide button in the Paragraph group to reveal the paragraph marks. Use this method if you want to use the Format Painter in one location. You can use the Format Painter once or continually. The Format Painter can also be used on objects such as tables and images. (As shown in step 3, below, you don’t have to copy paragraph-level formatting.) In addition, the Format Painter can copy paragraph-level formatting, such as bulleted or numbered lists, alignment, spacing, indentation, borders, and shading. It will also copy styles from the Style gallery such as Heading 1, Heading 2, etc. Font-level formatting includes font style, font size, font color, emphasis (i.e., boldness, italics, and underlining), superscripting and subscripting, text effects (e.g., outline shadow, reflection, glow), and highlighting. The Format Painter copies font-level formatting from one block of text to another within your document. How to Use the Format Painter Keyboard Shortcutsįirst, let’s answer the question… What Does the Format Painter Do, Exactly?. We will also use the Format Painter keyboard shortcuts. That opens the Format Picture pane and some controls for the effect.This tutorial shows how to use the Format Painter in Microsoft Word. To remove more color, choose Artistic Effects Options at the bottom of the gallery. Under Picture Tools | Artistic Effects there’s one option that might do the job Photocopy on the bottom row. Try the presets on the left under either Color Saturation or Color Tone. Picture Tools | Color has some presets that remove the color from a picture. Choose the one that works with your picture. Office Picture Tools don’t have a specific ‘outline’ or ‘line drawing’ option but there are choices that can do the job. That leaves you with Teddy with a white background (strictly speaking a transparent background showing the white Word document behind the image). 
Or just click ‘Keep Changes’ to proceed.īackground Removal Tool for pictures in Office You could tweak the ‘Keep’ areas, especially the right foot which is a little cut off at the bottom. In this case it’s done a good job, better than many other pictures. Office will try to guess what’s background. That will make for a cleaner outline drawing.Ĭlick on the image, under the Picture Tools tab is Remove Background. We could go straight to making an outline version but first lets remove the background. We searched for ‘Teddy’ in Online Pictures and found this cute little fellow. Find an imageĪdd a photo you already have or find one online from Insert | Pictures Children can color-in pictures of themselves, family or friends. Print the outline version and kids have an outline to color in. We’ll be the first to admit, the image to outline options aren’t great but they are serviceable, quick and easily done with tools you have in Microsoft Word.
Modern Microsoft Word (Office) has some picture tools which can convert an image into an outline that kids can use for coloring in.
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