I have worked in an office environment for several years and gained qualifications in Administration and IT.

Recently after having Microsoft Office 365 installed, I have discovered a little icon that can save time when working on formatting large documents.  In administration, consistency is key to a good-looking document.

I dread to think of the amount of time I have been through a document changing font, font size, font colour, layout and paragraph spacing but have just discovered this little paintbrush icon Format Painter that does this for me.  Don’t get me wrong it is not a miracle cure for the technophobe but it will copy all the formatting of Microsoft Word text and apply/paste it over new text so all look alike.

Nobody told me of this new feature I had to hear about it in a random YouTube video when I was doing some research on templates and how to apply them in Word.

Since this discovery, I estimate that this simple little function has saved me hours in the office spent on large documents.