Using the Format Painter

Microsoft Word, certainly provides many options for adjusting the formatting or …the overall appearance for your text. And that obviously means that your going …to apply different formatting to different text from time to time. …But one of the things that I think is most important to keep in mind, is consistency. …If you going to format text in particular way, similar text elsewhere in the …document should probably be formatted in exactly the same way. …For example, in this document we have some chapter headings. …There's Chapter One right here at the beginning of the document, and if we …scroll down a bit we'll find Chapter Two just a little bit further down.…

If I were to change the formatting for Chapter Two for example, then I probably …want to apply exactly the same formatting, for Chapter One. …In other words when there is consistency with the text, for example consistent …headings throughout the document I want to use consistent formatting for that text. …With the Chapter Two heading selected, I'll go ahead and make some changes. …