*hypf*

I needed the format painter pretty often in the last few days. It's quite a handy tool sometimes, though with one caveat: The mode created by selecting the format painter ends after one use. So usually you can only paint the formatting onto a single destination before having to re-enable the tool. That's not very nice when having multiple places to apply the formatting.

However, you can simply double-click the button in the Ribbon which leaves the mode activated until Esc is pressed. Found this by accident but it is handy.

And, noticing now, it's even mentioned in the documentation. But who reads that? :-)