Rearranging Styles on AD (AD Desktop Mac)

[Apfelbeckchen]

Good evening everyone,

I have created a whole bunch of styles over the months, organised and stacked in different categories in the styles panel. Now, I am not too happy with the categories any more. 

Is there an easy way to move styles from one category to another? Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Callum]

Hi Apfelbeckchen,

Welcome to the forums

Unfortunately the only way to do this is export then re import the styles.

Thanks

C

[Apfelbeckchen]

Hi there, thanks for getting back to me.  

I thought so, but sometimes you just seem to miss the obvious..

It´s not possible to break up the categories during import/ export either, right? I mean, I could not export single styles from a category, could I? 

Thanks!

[MEB]

Hi Apfelbeckchen,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
No, you can only export/import all categories at once. No way to break them or import/export single styles.

[Apfelbeckchen]

Okay, that´s fine. Thank you! 

 

[catlover]

I had this problem : copy styles I use often from one category into another.
Here's what I did, a bit laborious maybe, but it worked.

1. Create a new empty category,  & give it a name.

2. File >New >Create a small rectangle, no fill

3. Change over to the category FROM which you want to copy the style.

4. Select the rectangle >Fill the rectangle with the style you wish to copy

5. in the styles menu, go back to the empty category >click "Create style from selection".

This way you can fill your own category, one style at a time.

Another way : create of rectangles equal to the number of styles you want to copy,
fill with the styles you want to copy & create style from selection into your empty category  one by one.