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Please add Format Painter to Excel Online

Missing basic functionality.

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Al shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
completed  ·  excelonlineteam responded  · 

Happy to share, Excel Online now supporting Format Painter. You are welcome to try it and provide us feedback through the service (File → Help → Provide feedback to Microsoft)

Tamar [MSFT]

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Really difficult to reformat manually or resort to copy paste just to have the right formats in place. Time consuming and unnecessary.

  • Sukrit commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agreed. Downright silly to not have this feature in place. Further surprising since it's available on Word online.

  • Mike Woodward commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Other than the "Save" button, the format painter is the feature I use most in Excel. It saves a TON of time every day so why in the world would Microsoft remove this?!?! It's obviously pushing people (including myself) to seriously consider Google Docs.

  • David Lalomia commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    By not having the format button I am having to add about 5 -7 minutes to every spreadsheet I create and I create 6-8 spreadsheets a day.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree with all this comments. I do not know why this is not an option. Having to format everything once more is not user friendly. This is why I have not move all my documents from google drive.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I am unable to find a toggle for Format Painter as with the desktop version. Not sure if I'm just missing it...?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It becomes difficult to deal with large spreadsheets in Excel online as there is no option to freeze top panes.
    Also, please add Format painter to work conveniently on the data.

  • Jon commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a staple for any serious spreadsheet application and it's a downright sin for Microsoft not to include it with their online version.

  • Kia commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be a significant improvement and the primary formatting tool I use everyday. Why format something from scratch when you can copy the formatting from somewhere else?

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