Applying Character Style to Numbers and Initial Words

[SunnySis]

I have a numbered heading style.  I want it to look similar to shown below where the numbers and first words are a different font and color.

I created the Heading style and then created a character style that I applied to Bullets & Numbering and Initial Words.  It will change the color of the numbers but not apply the color and style change to the Initial Words.

What am I doing wrong?

[SunnySis]

I reapplied the style and it updated.
Geez .. I have touch all 100 paragraphs again?

[MikeTO]

No, but there's a known bug you need to work around.

1. Created a numbered or bulleted list and set Style to a character style. All the paragraphs will have that style applied to their numbers or bullets.
2. Edit the character style and change its font, colour, or whatever you like. After you click OK, the changes will not be reflected on the page as you've noticed.

 

Hopefully you've applied this formatting to the list with a paragraph style. If so, edit the paragraph style and change the Bullets & Numbering > Style to a different character style and click OK. Then edit it again and change it back to your style - this will solve the problem.

If you haven't used a paragraph style to format the list, you'll need to select all of the paragraphs and then using Bullets & Numbering > Style in the Paragraph panel to do the same thing, switch to another character style and then back again.

The same problem occurs with Drop Caps, Initial Words, and other features which apply a secondary style automatically. Here's the bug report:

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=AF-1012

[SunnySis]

1 hour ago, MikeTO said:

No, but there's a known bug you need to work around.

1. Created a numbered or bulleted list and set Style to a character style. All the paragraphs will have that style applied to their numbers or bullets.
2. Edit the character style and change its font, colour, or whatever you like. After you click OK, the changes will not be reflected on the page as you've noticed.

 

Hopefully you've applied this formatting to the list with a paragraph style. If so, edit the paragraph style and change the Bullets & Numbering > Style to a different character style and click OK. Then edit it again and change it back to your style - this will solve the problem.

If you haven't used a paragraph style to format the list, you'll need to select all of the paragraphs and then using Bullets & Numbering > Style in the Paragraph panel to do the same thing, switch to another character style and then back again.

The same problem occurs with Drop Caps, Initial Words, and other features which apply a secondary style automatically. Here's the bug report:

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&tags=AF-1012

Thanks Mike. I did use the paragraph style - I try to keep everything as automated as possible. Once you get over 200 pages, you need the computer to help! 😉