Hi Conon,
Not sure but are you trying to apply the painter several times.i

Paintbrush ("Format Painter") can be applied multiple times by double-clicking, and
turned off by clicking on any toolbar button. The large plus next to the cursor is
probably a tip-off of this feature.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel...tm#painter.htm

For a macro see ...
Pasting Formats, as in Format Painter (#painter)
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/paste.htm#painter

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"Conan Kelly" <CTBarbarin at msn dot com wrote in message ...
Hello all,

Is there any way to specifically set shortcut keys to buttons
(programmatically or by tweaking the registry even)? I would like to
set Excel's "Format Painter"
and "Center" buttons to the same key combos as Word's (Ctrl + Shift +
C) and (Ctrl + E).

Unfortunately, Excel isn't as resilient as Word when it comes to
assigning hot key combos (for those that don't know, please check out
this pictu
http://home.att.net/~ctbarbarin/file...e_keyboard.jpg). Word
lists every command, what the command does, and all key combos already
assigned to it and allows you to add new key combos to existing ones.

FYI: I'm using MS Word & Excel 2002 SP3 (MS Office XP SP3)

Thanks for any help anyone can provide,

Conan Kelly