Prevent automatic creation of text style when pasting text

[Colin Blue Wolf]

Hi All,

I can't seem to find an answer to my specific irritation. I create a lot of workshop and user manuals and often copy and paste text from old, new and differing sources from one document to another. I have set up specific text styles for some of these documents. When I copy/paste text from other sources or older documents, it automatically creates a matching text style for the text source. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V doesn't always work and sometimes I don't notice/forget to use it and I often end up with a list of text styles I don't want.

Is there anyway to lock the text styles panel so that new text styles cannot be created and cannot be imported from other sources?

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

1 hour ago, Colin Blue Wolf said:

Is there anyway to lock the text styles panel so that new text styles cannot be created and cannot be imported from other sources?

No, but you're not the first to have want wanted something like that.

[Colin Blue Wolf]

15 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Thank You

15 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

No, but you're not the first to have want wanted something like that.

Yeah, somehow I always come up with odd stuff requests!! Is there a feature requests area?

[Dan C]

1 hour ago, Colin Blue Wolf said:

Is there a feature requests area?

You can post any feedback or feature requests in the following section, for our devs to see and consider

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/122-feedback-for-the-affinity-v2-suite-of-products/

[thomaso]

20 hours ago, Colin Blue Wolf said:

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V doesn't always work and sometimes I don't notice/forget to use it and I often end up with a list of text styles I don't want.

A 2-step workaround would be to first paste the copied text into a plain text file (.txt, not .rtf / .doc) and copy + paste from there into Affinity.