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This wonderful little tool enables you to take the formatting from a particular cell that you fancy up and apply its formatting to other cells in the worksheet simply by selecting those cells.

To stop formatting cells with the Format Painter pointer, you simply click the Format Painter button on the Home tab again (it remains selected when you double-click it) to restore the button to its unselected state and return the mouse pointer to its normal thick, white cross shape.

To do this, click an empty, previously unformatted cell in the worksheet before you click the Format Painter button and then use the Format Painter pointer to drag through the cells you want returned to the default General format.

Unfortunately, you cant format an entire cell range by dragging your finger or stylus as you can with the mouse.

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Excel seems to open in Compatibility Mode every time now and I never noticed it doing that before.

Can someone provide feedback as to what is going on and or guide me to fix these issues.

Compatibility mode simply means youre opening an.xls file with a 20072010 application.

My mum has asked me to help her with a problem she is having which I have never come across before.

When I try to copy a formular from one cell to another it doesnt work.

I also noticed that when I press copy (or Ctrl C) the squiggly dotted line does not appear around the cell I am copying as it usually does.

Then after fiddling around with it for a while I also noticed that the format painter is not working either.

Mum was working on 2003 and I thought it might be a glitch with that version.

So I have upgraded her to 2010 and the problem is still happening.

When I open these spreadsheets on other computers it all works perfectly.

This is having an impact on the copying of all different things.

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Paste Special values function is also not working it only gives the option of Unicode Text and Text.

Have you ever heard anything like this and are able to shed some light on this Many Thanks.

Was looking and looking for a solution to the same problem as described above.

Stumbled onto this thread, read your reply, uninstalled Skype Click-to-Call and problem solved Would never have made the link myself.

I would have never thought Skype Click to Call would have interfered with the paste feature of excel, but as soon as I uninstalled the Click to Call, paste special and format painter was back to acting normally again.

Control-C, Control-V wouldnt copy the format either, but now it does again.

You know, I was about to be fair and say that its probably Skypes fault, but then I remembered that Microsoft now OWNS Skype.

As Spatbord noted, we would never had made the connection to Skype Click-to-Call.

I just uninstalled Skype to call, I restarted my pc and it worked Now I can used the pinter format again.

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