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I often find myself changing text colors to the same color for five minutes at a time which is really unnecessarily mouse-intensive.

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    I'd rather use autoformat and change a value of some cell (autoformat can apply to a cell based on other cell value, use "formula" method) Jan 30, 2019 at 17:40
  • @LogicDaemon if you think this is a valuable way to do this, please write up a fully functional answer.
    – pixelearth
    Mar 28 at 22:29
  • It will not be doing exactly "this". To apply autoformatting, the whole workflow will have to change. But without any specifics, I cannot advise any further, this is why it's a comment, not an answer. Apr 1 at 21:54

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If the last action that you made was to apply the color then use Redo Ctrl + y

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Here are the steps:

  1. Press Alt + /
  2. Type the color (eg. blue, red etc)
  3. Hit Enter

Alt + / is like a command palette for all available commands. It's in Help menu.

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  • For changing a color to "dark green 3", that's still quite a lot of keys to press. Mar 28 at 19:32
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The answer is no for:

shortcut key for changing text color to the last color?

but you can always make one for color change:

  • first you will need to click on the toolbar/ribbon to escape the cell

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  • now use this combo:


    10x + 15x + 3x + select color

  • now you can use something like AHK to save this combo (including that initial click) under one key. for example:

    • red color under F7 key:
      click + tab (10x) + right arrow (15x) + down arrow (4x) + right arrow (1x) + enter
    • reset (black) color under F8 key:
      click + tab (10x) + right arrow (15x) + down arrow (1x) + enter
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    Based on SM Adnan's answer, I've been using the following script in AHK: F7:: Send, {alt down} Send, {/ down} Send, {alt up} Send, {/ up} Sleep 100 Send, red Send, {Down} Send, {Down} Send, {Enter} return
    – Ananth
    Apr 2, 2020 at 22:05
  • Nowadays you need 13×tab + 17×→. Might depend on your system and google account features, though. Mar 28 at 19:37
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  1. Copy the cell that has the formatting that you need (Ctrl+C)
  2. Paste format only on top of the cell(s) that you want to be formatted the same way (Ctrl+Alt+V)
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No there is not. But you can try following topic? maybe it will be a solution for you, to override some keys on new ones.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!category-topic/docs/docs-community/lOia0JT4dX4

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  • The related thread is very old. The initial post was posted almost 10 years ago and was locked on 2010.
    – Rubén
    Feb 2, 2019 at 17:05

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