Redefining paragraph style as character style leads to 2 applied character styles

[MikeTO]

This may be a known bug since it's so straightforward and is with a 1.x feature.

If you redefine a paragraph style such as Body as a character style, you will have 2 character styles applied, No Style and Body, and no applied paragraph style. If you apply a different character style such as Emphasis, you will have Emphasis and Body applied. Publisher is still treating the redefined style as a paragraph style.

You can improve the situation by applying a different paragraph style such as Heading 1 and then re-applying Body (as the character style).

IMO it would be better if redefining a paragraph style fully converted it to a character style, and if an already applied character style was cleared. For example, if I redefined Body to character, text formatted as either Body (para) + No Style or Emphasis (char) would become No Style (para) + Body (char). And vice versa if redefining a character style as a paragraph style.

This came up due to this thread in which the heading styles were redefined as character styles which caused confusion with the TOC feature.

 

[walt.farrell]

4 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

If you redefine a paragraph style such as Body as a character style,

More details on how you do that, please. Are you referring simply to Editing the Text Style and changing this setting, or to something else?

[MikeTO]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

More details on how you do that, please. Are you referring simply to Editing the Text Style and changing this setting, or to something else?

That's it.

 

 

[Dan C]

Hi @MikeTO,

Thanks for your report!

On 8/5/2023 at 3:05 PM, MikeTO said:

This may be a known bug since it's so straightforward and is with a 1.x feature.

Unless I'm missing the report, I don't believe this is currently logged with the team - therefore I have replicated this here on Windows and macOS and reported it as such.

I hope this helps

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