Ed B.

Sorry, I meant the original post being the prior thread, because it seems like your post and the Nov 2022 OP (which I replied to today) are both saying "Object styles should work more like text styles"

This has also been suggested in a prior thread:

Rephrasing the above: Text styles are great! Once text has a paragraph or character style, changing the style also updates all text with that style. Text styles are part of the document; I don't have a bunch of different "Heading 1" styles from different documents competing for space in the menu Text styles can be based on other text styles, and don't have to define every attribute: a paragraph style could be "Whatever Body Text is like, but green." Object styles... are not like that. There does not seem to be a way to update an object style once it's been added to the panel (Screenshot 1) It's more like a "Paste Format" palette. Object styles seem to be app-wide, not document-scoped There's a "Default" grouping menu, but I don't see a way to add other groups (Screenshot 2) Object styles cannot inherit from each other Suggested style-eligible attributes Everything that can be set in the Color/Stoke/Constraints/Quick FX/Transform (etc.?) panels Probably also Text Frame settings (I would not have thought of this, but Paolo's "Picture Frame Styles" post particularly called out position-on-page as a useful attribute) Screenshots: Can't update object styles Can't add new groups? Other Threads This has also been suggested as "Picture Frame Styles":

Thank you! This has been very helpful! Oooh, even better, I hadn't noticed your screenshot & the "Format..." option until today. --- While "Find no-style + this format" is a big step closer to what I'm looking for, I don't think it's quite all the way there. So, for a workflow like this: Select some text ??? Find [whatever formatting the selected text had] Right now, Step 2 looks like "manually copy all the attributes I can see into the Choose Format window". I still wish there were a way to import the format from my selection into this window with a button like "Load from selection" which could set every field in every sub-menu of this modal to whatever's common among all the text I have selected at the moment. ("Paste Format" into this window could also scratch this itch) ...but short-term, it's great that I should be able to work my way from more-specific text formats to less-specific formats and apply styles along the way. Thanks again! (I also still wish there were an optional preflight check for no-style text. Us programmers love our automated quality checks... except when we don't.)

TL;DR Feature request: a way to [at least one of]: Auto-generate paragraph styles from un-styled text in the document Trade-off: this could result in an annoying number of auto-generated styles This would probably need a way to bulk-replace styles ("Change all AutoPara1 paragraphs to Body") Maybe character styles too? But just paragraph styles would be a great start. Maybe auto-apply the default italic/bold styles to matching text within a paragraph? This wouldn't need to figure out the intent-based settings like "Next paragraph style" Apply a paragraph style to any un-styled text in the document that matches it Trade-off: this could get a bit fiddly if there are a few very-similar-but-distinct paragraph styles in play Maybe auto-apply the default emphasis/strong/em+strong character styles to matching text within a paragraph? Select all text with a certain style AFAIK multi-select is not currently a thing Along with: A Preflight check option to find un-styled paragraphs Background Sometimes I paste a bunch of already-written rich text into Affinity Publisher. If I want the Publisher document to use text/paragraph styles, I need to go through the document paragraph-by-paragraph and hope I don't miss anything. Some automation here would be really helpful. Some ideas are above, though they all have trade-offs and I don't know which would be best overall.