Affinity Publisher: Purging style artefacts

[Pyanepsion]

I went back to an old book to update it.

I don’t know where this ‘Character outline: none; Paragraph decorations: off’ in addition to the Normal style comes from.

How can it be removed?

Thank you for your explanations.

[NathanC]

Hi @Pyanepsion,

In the Style 'Decorations' tab toggle the 'Enabled' box until it becomes a strikethrough/dash (-) and it should remove the 'Paragraph decorations' style attribute.

As for the 'Character outline: none' at some point it's likely that the Outline setting under the 'Colour & Decorations' was changed and then set to 'None'. This normally shows as 'No Change' but once it's been defined I don't think there's a method to set it back to this in the same dialog as it uses the Stroke settings menu.

However, you could just use the 'Reset formatting' box under the 'Style' tab which should clear both of these attributes at once.

[Pyanepsion]

21 hours ago, NathanC said:

However, you could just use the 'Reset formatting' box under the 'Style' tab which should clear both of these attributes at once.

Hi @NathanC,

Thank you for explaining the cause. They are both clear and very explanatory. I remember one day modifying the Normal style to make it depend on a generic Base style. Bravo.
However, ‘Reset formatting’ doesn’t seem appropriate. It erases the style, and forces you to rewrite it, but the message remains.