Equivalent for Word's Format Painter?

I've bought iWork 09 to use on my MBA as a substitute for Word. One of the feature I used most in Word is the format painter, where you copy complete formatting from one area to another with one click.
Is there any equivalent to this in Pages?

You don't have to.
The way styles work in Pages they are just like the Format Painter in that you pick at what you like, except you give it a name and get to reuse it. Pages styles always work from samples of text.
Pages also has three styles: character, paragraphs and lists, with possibly the way outlines works making that a 4th style. So you can certainly take whatever you want and use it however you want.
Copy and pasting styles which is similar, is a very poor way of doing it because it doesn't maintain consistency and when you later change your mind on how the subheads or body text should look, you would have to go back and manually reapply it everywhere.
With Pages' styles you modify the look of a sample of say the subhead and then Redefine the style from that. So again it is pretty much the way you have been working, only easier.

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Thank you

command option c = Copy paragraph format
command option v = Paste paragraph format
Better is to use Styles:
Menu > View > Show Styles Drawer
Peter

Format Painter in Pages?

Hello,
I'll assume that others may have asked this question already, but is there a feature that's similar to MS Word's Format Painter that allows you to copy the text and paragraph formatting to other parts of your document simply by 'copying' it from text in one part of your document to text in another part of your document.
Word has had this feature since at least 2000 or '97.

In Numbers, triggering the "Copy Style" button,
selecting an other piece of text
triggering the "Paste Style" button does exactly what it's supposed to achieve.
It doesn't in Pages so, from my point of view, there is a bug.
*Bug ID# 7989885*
Summary:
+In Pages, the Copy Style and Paste Style buttons seems to fail to do their job.+
+*Steps to Reproduce:*+
+Apply formatting attributes like font, size, bold, italic, color …+
+to a word+
+Select the word+
+trigger the Copy Style button.+
+Select an other word+
+trigger the Paste Style button.+
+*Expected Results:*+
+I assumed that, as this scheme does in Numbers, it would apply the attributes of the original word to the target one+
+*Actual Results:*+
+It changes nothing to the target word+
Regression:
+Copy two letters from the original word.+
+Paste just before (or just after) the piece of text whose attributes must be modified+
+Cut the piece of text+
+Put the cursor between the two styled letters+
+Paste and Match Style+
+Delete the two extraneous letters.+
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 16 mai 2010 14:23:47

What is the keyboard shortcut for format painting in word please?

what is the keyboard shortcut for format painting in word please?

Goto the menu bar, choose tools and choose customize keyboard. you can then scroll down to format options and set a keyboard shortcut for the format option you are looking for.

Microsoft Word for Mac - Format painter?

Does Word for Mac have something similar to "format painter" on the PC version? Format painter allows you to copy and paste the formatting of a particular paragraph or part of the document. Thank you!

Look here.
If you have further questions about Word or other Microsoft products, the best place to ask will be in Microsoft's forums, as baltwo suggested.
Regards.

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I have been using the Format Painter tool since 2003. In the 2010 version in Word, I can duplicate what seems to be a bug. I have a line of text that a few words are blue and bolded. I wanted to copy that formating, so I click in the word (or select a
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I have the exact same problem. I'm finishing a document someone else created with wacky fonts/sizes/underlines/bullets/hanging indents etc all over the place. I selected all, made it Arial size 11, set the line spacing to 1.5 and removed any underlines.
I went into paragraph and set line spacing before and after to 0, and removed spaces between paragraphs of the same style.
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One piece of text is arial, 11, with a checkbox bullet. When I look at its style while it is highlighted, there is no style selected.
I use format painter to bring the top style down to the bottom one, and the bottom one changes to Times New Roman, 10, with the checkbox bullet and the new tab indent.
[---] I think format painter should apply a style, period. Forget the 'Normal' style of the document, because when I'm matching format styles, I want that style, not whatever the Normal style is set to.
The format painter only “records” paragraph formatting (including paragraph styles) if you select a whole paragraph. If you select multiple paragraphs, there might be conflicting settings, and the format painter can’t store all of the formatting.
When you are reformatting a whole document, the format painter is a less useful tool. Instead, do the following: Make a printout of the document for reference. Then apply Normal style to all paragraphs (Ctrl+Shift+N) and manually apply the appropriate
style to headings, lists, and any other paragraphs of your document. Modify styles to suit your needs.
Stefan Blom, Microsoft Word MVP

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I am using a Trial version of RoboHelp for Word 8.0, and would like to receive comments on the following issues:
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Are you referring to CreatePDF's ability to export existing PDF files to Word? I want to confirm as Adobe CreatePDF doesn't have any sort of interface with scanners.
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I'm running Word 2008 on a Macbook Pro, Mac OS 10.5.
Word comes with a selection of Automator actions, including one to find and replace text in Word. I often want to convert standard numerals to old-style numerals, which are part of the extended glyphs set in fonts I use. Automator will allow me to set up ten find/replace actions (for the numbers 0-9) that successfully replace all the numerals with old-style numerals. But it only does it for the main body of the document, not for the footnotes. I need to be able to do it for all the footnotes.
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For Each aStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
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End With
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End With
Next aStory
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Thanks to all three contributors for their generous help so far. Mac people are lovely.
BDAqua's suggestion wouldn't work, I think, because copying footnote text into another application and then back into Word would lose all the associations between footnote references in the body and the footnotes themselves. I wish I could do what Klaus1 says, but Word 2008 won't allow the creation of Macros any more. They've shut off support for their creation. Nice MS. red_menace's suggestion seems very plausible and I'll look into a way of mapping the old style numerals to specific keystrokes. That might do it.
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I know this is all a day late and a follar short but for those folks that still use Robohelp for Word:
If your company is going to Windows 7, X5 will not work. You need to bump it up to at least RH8.
Even after you upgrade, if you use the tripane (winhelp_2000) view in RH for Word, it will not work on Windows 7 even with the microsoft patch. With the patch it will look like an older version of RH in winhelp_4. At least I have not been able to get it to display.
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Peggy Theo.

Thanks for posting this Peggy.
It is worth adding that there is another way of continuing to work with Word - using Linked Documents in RoboHelp HTML. You create Word documents entirely independent of RoboHelp and then create topics by linking those documents in a RoboHelp HTML project.
You cannot create WinHelp that way but WinHelp is on life support and requires users to download a viewer, you cannot distribute it. It really is time to move on from WinHelp.
RoboHelp for Word is not getting much development and does not get the new features being added to RoboHelp HTML.
Linking is covered on my site.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
@petergrainge

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Thank you very much for your input. And yes, you are correct, the compression we used for the current catalogue's PDF format does strip out text included in the catalogue. We used the compression settings we did with the intention of minimising download time, however I take your point about including text for search purposes (which I also utilise when I'm scanning through PDFs).
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