What is the function of format painter? How does it work?

Answer:

The function of format painter is to pick up the formatting that has been applied to one portion of text and apply that formatting to another portion of text.

To work with format painter-

1.Click on the paragraph whose format is to be picked up.

2.Click on the Format Painter icon displayed on the Home tab within the Clipboard section. The shape of mouse pointer will be changed.

3.Now select the portion of another paragraph where we want to copy the format with the changed shape of mouse. This will copy the format to that portion.