Q. Format Painter is a very handy tool for copying a format style from one place to another, but it seems to work with only one section at a time. Is there a way to get it to work like a rubber stamp ...

Click the "Home" tab at the top of the Excel 2007 window. Click "Format Painter" in the Clipboard section at the top and the cursor changes to a paintbrush.

To extend your conditional formatting to a new part of the spreadsheet, a new worksheet or even a new workbook, Excel's "Format Painter" feature lets you easily copy conditional formatting.