Copy chart formats to other charts in Excel

Excel tip - Copy and Paste Chart Format

If you know Format Painter, the on top of your mind solution should be using Format Painter to copy Chart Formats to other charts.  However, it doesn’t work… 😦

No worries.  Copy and Paste comes to recuse!! Really?!

Of course.  Just that you cannot do it with keyboard shortcuts.

You may download a Sample File to follow along.

Let’s watch it in action:

Tip: If you are dealing with multiple charts, don’t forget our shortcut friend F4 that repeats your last action.

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2 Responses to Copy chart formats to other charts in Excel

  1. MF says:

    Did you use generic keyboard shortcuts?? You have to use the buttons in the ribbon as demonstrated in the video. Pls try again.

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  2. djgizbo says:

    Hi, it doesn’t work. Past Special gives me the options Paste: Picture (PNG)/Picture (JPEG)/ etc. No format…

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