

In case you want to copy the formatting to multiple ranges, you can repeat the steps 3 to 5. The above steps would instantly copy and paste the formatting from column B to column C. Go to Paste Special and then in the options that appear, click on ‘Paste format only’ option (or use the keyboard shortcut CONTROL + ALT + V).Right-click on any of the selected cells.Select the range of cells where you want to copy the copied conditional formatting.Right-click and then click on Copy (or use the keyboard shortcut Control + C).Select the cell or range of cells from which you want to copy the formatting.

Using Paste Specialīelow are the steps to copy conditional formatting from one cell to another in Google Sheets using Paste Special: Let’s have a look at both of these methods.

This can be done using two methods – Paste Special and the Paint Format. Suppose you have a dataset as shown below where I have applied conditional formatting to column B (which has the Physics score for the students) so that all the cells with a score less than 35 gets highlighted in red.Īnd now, I want to apply the same formatting to Column B, which has the Math score.
