ABC's of PowerPoint 2007

02. The Eye-droppers (a.k.a. Sucker-upper tool)
PPT 2007  |  PPT 2003

Do you ever wish you could grab all of the properties (color, line thickness, font, etc.) of one object and given them to another? You can!

PowerPoint is equipped with 2 eye-dropper commands, "Pick Up Object Style" & "Apply to Defaults". Both of these can be located in the customize commands window. To get there, click the windows icon in the upper left corner. Click the "PowerPoint Options" button on the bottom of the drop down menu that appears. This will open the "PowerPoint Options" window. Click the "Customize" button. There will be two drop down menus. Open the first one (the one labeled "Choose Commande From"), and select "Commands not in the ribbon". Find and select "Apply Style" and "Pick Up Style", and click the "Add > >" button after selecting each. Click "OK" and they will be added to the Quick Access toolbar, located at the very top of your screen, next to the window icon.

To use these commands, select an object by clicking on it (i.e a text box with a drop shadow, background color, specific font, font color, font size, border, etc). Then click on the "Pick Up Style" eye-dropper command. Nothing visible will happen, however all of the info has been grabbed. Now if you have another object (i.e. text box) that needs to look the same, select it and then click once on the "Apply Style " eyedropper command. All of the information gathered from the first will now be applied to the second and stored in the command until you either click on the "Pick Up Style" eye-dropper command or quit out of PowerPoint.

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