Copy and Paste - "Paste Special?"

I did a copy of two entire columns and wanted to paste the formatting of those columns in adjacent columns. When I paste and copy style it appears to use the style of the formatting template not the actual columns that I have modified. If I copy and paste the formatting of the columns does not include the size of the columns.
I want the two columns (differing in size) to be repeated numerous times. I don't want to have to format the size of each pair. In Excel if you copy and paste special and then select the new larger range and paste special and repeat you can quickly get a large area formatted quickly.
What am I missing?

Hello
You simply missed that Numbers is not Excel.
Apple is not forced to build a product using a photocopier.
If you think that a feature is missing, go to "Provide Numbers Feedback" in the "Numbers" menu and describe your wishes to Apple engineers.
Here we are just users trying to help other users.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 3 octobre 2007 18:50:54)

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