microsoft-powerpoint-2010
I'm wondering if there's a feature in ppt 2010 to paste the formatting of one table onto another (e.g. table borders, cell background colour). I've tried all the paste specials but nothing seems to work.
It would seem really strange to me if this feature doesn't exist (you can paste formatting of other objects easily), so does anybody know how to do this?
Go to Insert > Illustrations tab > Shapes and look for Callouts. Cloud Callout is probably what you need.
This little macro will do the job for you:
Sub AddPictureBorders()
' Before running this, apply the style you want to one picture
' then use the formatting paintbrush to pick up the formatting
' This will apply the formatting to each picture.
Dim oSh As Shape
Dim oSl As Slide
For Each oSl In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each oSh In oSl.Shapes
With oSh
' ignoring linked pictures, OLE objects
' and such
If .Type = msoPicture Then
.Apply
End If
End With
Next
Next
End Sub
Best Answer
As far as I know, what you are asking for is not possible.
If all your tables are to have the same style, you could create a presentation template that has this one style as default table style.
Another option is to copy the table out of PowerPoint into some other Office application such as Word or Excel that is more flexible, then copy it back.