Why Publisher fails to override tracking when applying paragraph style to imported text?

[Juhani]

Why Publisher fails to override tracking when applying paragraph style to any imported text? It only works when I switch to a style that has a different Tracking value, but it does not clear any local overrides, even when Alt/Option clicking on the style name.

[thomaso]

Does it work if you choose the according option in the context (right click) or burger/setting menu of a saved paragraph style?

Another way to remove unwanted styles when pasting is to choose "Paste Without Formatting" or, for pasted, placed/imported text, to save the text as plain text (.txt) before transferring it to Affinity.

[Juhani]

2 hours ago, thomaso said:

Does it work if you choose the according option in the context (right click) or burger/setting menu of a saved paragraph style?

No, none of these work, even when wiping my character styles, which I do not want to do obviously. "Revert defaults" does clear out the Tracking value, however it also wipes any character styles applied.

2 hours ago, thomaso said:

Another way to remove unwanted styles when pasting is to choose "Paste Without Formatting" or, for pasted, placed/imported text, to save the text as plain text (.txt) before transferring it to Affinity.

This does not work when you have an edited article with bold and italics as local overrides that needs to be converted into character styles.

Capitals seem to have the same problem. Often texts are imported in either All Caps or Small Caps, even though the original text was not set in all caps. Very odd.

[thomaso]

@Juhani, what application was used to format the text before importing it into Affinity? Can you upload that text file (or at least a formatted excerpt that includes examples of the unexpected tracking and capitalization) and an .afpub with that text file imported?