Publisher: Change text style

[wsilmenau]

When I copy text from another Affinity document, the text style is automatically applied to the new document. If you do this with multiple text frames, each time the text style is transferred to the new document. This way you get the same text style several times.

Is there a way to apply new text styles to texts in a document without marking them.

If you delete a text style in Indesign, you will be asked which style should be assigned to the texts.

[Dan C]

Hi @wsilmenau,

3 hours ago, wsilmenau said:

If you do this with multiple text frames, each time the text style is transferred to the new document. This way you get the same text style several times.

I'm not seeing this behaviour currently, with a Text Style 'Test' in document A, applied to 3 different text objects (2 text frames and 1 artistic text).
Then I create a new document B and copy and paste the text directly, or the text objects into the new file.

In document B, there is now 1 Text Style 'Test' present, matching document A.

Can you please expand on your exact workflow that results in duplicate Text Styles within your new file?

3 hours ago, wsilmenau said:

Is there a way to apply new text styles to texts in a document without marking them.

I'm sorry, I'm not 100% certain what you mean by 'marking them', could you please try rephrasing this for me?

3 hours ago, wsilmenau said:

If you delete a text style in Indesign, you will be asked which style should be assigned to the texts.

Unfortunately this isn't supported within Affinity currently, instead the text will be returned to [No Style].

[wsilmenau]

Text styles are copied from another document even though they already exist in the current document. That's a good thing, but it's important that formats can be exchanged. Text with formatting "Text Styles 1" should be assigned text formatting "Text Styles 2". Or when deleting "Text style 1", the text passages formatted with it should be assigned to "Text style 2".