Publisher 2.6: Applying Paragraph style does not remove local formatting.

[mwdiers]

When you right-click a Paragraph style in the Styles pallet, there is an option to apply a paragraph style but preserve local formatting. This implies that if you apply the Paragraph style, local formatting will not be preserved. This is the desired behavior. However both options do the same thing. Local formatting is preserved in either case.

At present, there appears to be no way of removing local formatting and forcing the Paragraph style, overriding all local formatting.

EDIT: I did find a way to clear local formatting. Clicking the "Reapply Text Styles" button on the top-left of the pallet has the desired effect.

[walt.farrell]

27 minutes ago, mwdiers said:

When you right-click a Paragraph style in the Styles pallet, there is an option to apply a paragraph style but preserve local formatting. This implies that if you apply the Paragraph style, local formatting will not be preserved. This is the desired behavior. However both options do the same thing. Local formatting is preserved in either case.

At present, there appears to be no way of removing local formatting and forcing the Paragraph style, overriding all local formatting.

Are you reporting a difference between the retail and beta versions?

If not, that's really a discussion topic for the regular section of the forum, not the beta section.

[mwdiers]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

Are you reporting a difference between the retail and beta versions?

If not, that's really a discussion topic for the regular section of the forum, not the beta section.

I only noticed it in the beta, and was not seeing the behavior in 2.5. However, I am finding the same behavior in 2.5 on the document in question, so it is not consistent. Sometimes it works correctly. This seems to be document dependent. I will open a bug in the non-beta forum, and provide an example doc.

[MikeTO]

5 hours ago, mwdiers said:

I only noticed it in the beta, and was not seeing the behavior in 2.5. However, I am finding the same behavior in 2.5 on the document in question, so it is not consistent. Sometimes it works correctly. This seems to be document dependent. I will open a bug in the non-beta forum, and provide an example doc.

I started to draft a bug report for this yesterday after seeing it while testing somebody's document, but I was waiting to try it in v1.10 to confirm that it's always been this way. It's definitely not new in 2.6 though.

The bug report I've drafted is that applying a paragraph style does not clear Typography overrides if the style has that attribute set to no change - every other character and paragraph attribute set to no change will be cleared when applying a paragraph style except for Typography attributes. Note that character styles should not be cleared.

Is this what you're seeing?

[MikeTO]

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