Publisher: Text / character styles 'saved as default' are not available when opening an existing file

[vikingtone]

In Affinity Publisher, if I edit an existing style and save the styles as default, they are in the desired edited state if I make a new file. Exactly as I would hope.

But if I open a file made prior to the change in the default styles, the edited style isn't there. It's as though opening a file doesn't load the global default styles, but 'remembers' its own 'default' styles.

Is it possible to 'refresh' the style defaults from an existing file please?

[NathanC]

Hi @vikingtone,

Amending text styles and then setting them as default will only affect new documents going forward, this is the expected behaviour. Text styles are saved with the document file, meaning if you were to set a new default it would not retrospectively apply to older documents.

1 hour ago, vikingtone said:

Is it possible to 'refresh' the style defaults from an existing file please?

If you use the 'Import Styles' function from the same Text style panel context menu you saved the defaults in before, this will allow you to load in an .afpub document, at which point the 'Imported Text Styles' menu will prompt allowing you to control which styles are replaced/imported.

https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/pages/Panels/textStylesPanel.html

[vikingtone]

OK, thanks  -  I checked that process.  I was hoping for something more automatic, but I can live with this approach,  thanks again