[Paragraph styles menu doesn't scroll]

8 hours ago, Wosven said:

Hi @dmmobley

Did you try on the right, on the scroll bar?

For example, in APub you can scroll up or down to modify some values, and to avoid this when wanting to scroll in the Paragrah panel, you need to do it on a specific area.

 

Just now, dmmobley said:

Thanks for the reponse Wosven.  Yes, on both of the context drop down menu and in the Paragraph Styles panel, I tried scrolling from many areas with no success. I would expect scrolling to be on the right, if available, but i did try from other areas.

 

[Paragraph styles menu doesn't scroll]

9 hours ago, firstdefence said:

1. Which Operating System are you using
2. Which app are we talking about
3. How many styles does it require to see this issue occur?

1. Mac OS Big Sur, although I saw the same thing in Catalina

2. Affinity Publisher - version 1.86 

3. I see 43 styles up to 'Q...' but there are more. I can see 61 styles in the TextStyles panel which does scroll. I could get along by clearing out the unused styles, but I wondered whether other people have experienced the same issue. 

I see the same phenomena on both the context area styles dropdown and in the Paragraph Style panel. Neither seems to scroll.

[Paragraph styles menu doesn't scroll]

When the number of paragraph styles gets high enough that they can't be shown all at once, the menu (in the context menu area) does not scroll and cuts off the higher end ones (higher alphabetically). Am I missing something or is it a 'feature with negative benefits'?

Thanks

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