Paragraph Styles: deleting!

[cdw]

I don't know if its just me but I don't seem able to (as InDesign allows) delete a Paragraph Style and automatically (well you have to pick it!) have another one applied... is it just me? 🧐

[walt.farrell]

No, you would have to assign the other Paragraph Style yourself, first.

That's reasonably easy in Publisher using Find and Replace. The cog icon to the right of the Find and Replace fields will let you specify text styles. So you could search for text with the original text style you want to delete, and then replace with the other text style. Then delete the text style using the Text Styles panel.

[cdw]

Thanks Walt for that. Still a tad cack-handed as well as unintuitive, but you live and learn!

[GuyMiklos]

Thank you Walt.

I searched multiple times through the interface on different occasions. I'd never have found this extremely useful selection of parameters accessed through the little cog symbol, if I hadn't found your post here. This will be a huge help in tidying up the formatting of several hundred pages.

Thank you.

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome, @GuyMiklos.

[ttl]

On 4/22/2023 at 9:14 PM, walt.farrell said:

No, you would have to assign the other Paragraph Style yourself, first.

That's reasonably easy in Publisher using Find and Replace. The cog icon to the right of the Find and Replace fields will let you specify text styles. So you could search for text with the original text style you want to delete, and then replace with the other text style. Then delete the text style using the Text Styles panel.

I am sorry, but the way you described is extremely and uselesly long and unintuitive. It should be natural that when you want to delete a paragraph/character style, which is used somewhere in document, the app (Publisher) should ask you for replacemet style or no style.

[MikeTO]

5 hours ago, ttl said:

I am sorry, but the way you described is extremely and uselesly long and unintuitive. It should be natural that when you want to delete a paragraph/character style, which is used somewhere in document, the app (Publisher) should ask you for replacemet style or no style.

I think everybody agrees that Publisher should prompt you for a replacement style or no style, this feature has been requested many times. Walt was providing instructions for how to do it since the feature doesn't exist.