Format painter not working?

I know this is old, but I agree on the whole Format painter not working properly issue. I can use it about a dozen times and it may work as intended for part of that, but things like text box resizing to fit text or text formatting (bold, etc.) may not copy over about a quarter of the time. In practice, this makes it useless in situations because you then have to manually go through every setting for every text box anyway.

It's similar to the Headings Style settings, where if you're taking over or fixing a course that already exists, the the headings styles may work for some slides and not for others. I suspect that there is an issue in the master slides / layout slides used, in that you might have two versions of a set of masters within a story, and the heading style is probably tied to that programmatically. This is much larger fix than it might be otherwise. It's a frustration and time suck to be sure.