format painter not work correctly

can anyone tell me why format painter in writer not work correctly when i used it. it not copy the format as usual i do in calc or ms word.

Maybe If you explain a bit in detail what happen, someone could help.

It does not work for me either. Type a document in your home language, mine is South African English, text set to arial 12. Now copy some text from a website that is in a different font and paste it into your document. Oh no. the format is different! No prob, will use format painter from my desired text to adjust the newly pasted text. So select the desired text with he desired format, press the format paintbrust, select the new text, and… nothing, it does not work!