Copying format of text to different areas of document is done using option

Concept

In a word processor, the formatting of text (font, size, colour, bold/italic, spacing, etc.) is a property that is separate from the text content itself. A dedicated tool exists to pick up the formatting of one selection and paint it onto other text, so that the second selection takes on the same look without retyping or re-applying each attribute manually.

Application

The tool that copies only the look of selected text and applies it to text elsewhere in the document is the Format Painter. You select the text whose formatting you want, click the Format Painter, then drag across the target text; the target instantly adopts the source formatting. So the option naming the Format Painter is the one being described.

Why the others do not fit

• The path through Format > Paragraph opens a dialog to adjust paragraph settings such as indentation and line spacing; it edits settings directly and does not copy an existing look from one place to another.

• The Edit > Copy command duplicates the selected content itself (the words/objects) onto the clipboard, not the formatting alone.

• The claim that this cannot be done is simply false, since the word processor provides a built-in feature for exactly this purpose.

Cross-check

A quick sanity check: copying content versus copying appearance are different operations. Copy/paste reproduces the text; the Format Painter reproduces only the appearance and leaves the target's words unchanged. The feature described matches the latter.