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Copy cell formatting in Microsoft Excel
Formatting your Excel spreadsheet is an important step in making your work presentable. Microsoft Excel gives you several ways to copy the formatting of a cell. For example, Format Painter is a direct way to copy the formatting of one cell and apply it to another. But there are other ways to copy formatting, and this article will help you find the one that works for you and your type of work.
When you want to copy cells in Microsoft Excel, you will notice that there are several paste options available to you. Paste Formatting only allows you to copy the formatting of the cell, but not its contents.
Let's see how it works in an example. You want to copy the formatting of cell A2, which has a red background and white font color, to cell B2, which has a different value without formatting:
