Publisher v2.0.4 ; templates and default styles…

[laurent32]

Let's say I create a new document from a template.

That template has default styles.

While working on my new document, I modify the styles and I decide to save my just modified styles.

I apply the dedicated function : 

Am I correct to say that my template isn't updated with the "new" default style values ?

Don't you think there could be a link somewhere where the template used in a document could be updated regarding default styles having been updated… <= don't know if I'm very clear here ?

Right now I must save another template to keep my "new" default styles…

I go there : 

and save it with the same name as the previous one…

Am I correct ?

Did I miss something ?

Is there a better way of doing it ?

[walt.farrell]

I would probably:

1. Save a new document with the new text styles.
2. Edit the the existing Template
3. Import the Text Styles from the document saved in step 1.
4. Re-save the Template.

This minimizes the changes to the Template, as you're not replacing it from a file you've been editing.

[laurent32]

6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Import the Text Styles from the document saved in step 1

If my modified styles had the same names, I would expect that their names would be altered when imported in the edited template ?

For example, "paragraph style A" would then become "paragraph style A-1"…

Then I guess text using "paragraph style A" would still use "paragraph style A" in the template…

That could become very tricky… and need plenty of manual work renaming "paragraph style A-1" =>"paragraph style A"…

I guess it wouldn't be possible to rename "paragraph style A-1" =>"paragraph style A" without first deleting "paragraph style A" which might then break the link with the paragraphs that have that style… ???

[walt.farrell]

Yes, if you are updating the styles you've already used, you'll have some more work to do.

You could rename text style A to A-1 before importing. Then after the import, you could use Find and Replace to find text with text style A-1 and change it to use the new text style A.

[laurent32]

7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

You could rename text style A to A-1 before importing. Then after the import, you could use Find and Replace to find text with text style A-1 and change it to use the new text style A.

Yes you're right…

But I guess the best I could do is to manually replicate the modifications I did on a document default's styles, in the document's template… If those are simple modifications…

I feel we miss some tools there…

I need to think more about it…

Thanks again @walt.farrell

[laurent32]

I was wondering…

In the template, if I erase the styles that are used, and then import styles with the same name from another document, would they match back to the texts or paragraphs that had those styles ?

In other words, when we erase a style, do we lose forever the "link" to the text or paragraph ?

Can we get the "link" back if we create a new style with the same name as the one we erased ?

I guess not ? Could create disasters… But we never know… ?

[NathanC]

Hi @laurent32

On 2/24/2023 at 6:44 PM, laurent32 said:

In the template, if I erase the styles that are used, and then import styles with the same name from another document, would they match back to the texts or paragraphs that had those styles ?

In other words, when we erase a style, do we lose forever the "link" to the text or paragraph ?

Can we get the "link" back if we create a new style with the same name as the one we erased ?

If you erased/deleted the styles on your original template document this then permanently unlinks the text from that particular style as the text reverts to [No Style].

If you import styles from a separate document which had style(s) that were identical to your original in terms of the name, style settings etc. Publisher will not dynamically re-link/update all the text in your documents to use those style(s) again, these would need to be manually re-assigned to the relevant text.