Style Palette appearance

[dougedwards47]

Somehow I changed the listing of styles in the Style Palette in one of my open documents to be format free. I actually prefer this appearance, but I can't find what I did. Any suggestions?

[martin]

This actually isn't possible. Most likely that file merely has very simple format-free styles. I don't see why we couldn't add this as a feature however- I'll file it, thanks.

[dougedwards47]

No, it is possible - by accident. I was dealing with a document with styles. I did something that caused all the formatting in the appearance of the palette to disappear. There is a bug - which I don't have time at the moment to reproduce reliably - to do with applying multiple "undo"s after trying to define new paragraph style which contains a list style. As an aside ,this is far to difficult to do. Why isn't the list style part of a the paragraph style?I would like to be able to click in a paragraph which is list style and be able to define a new paragraph style which is defined by all the paragraph and list attributes of that paragraph.

[martin]

No, it is possible - by accident. I was dealing with a document with styles. I did something that caused all the formatting in the appearance of the palette to disappe

I promise you that under normal operation this is not possible. The styles palette always displays the style names with their respective formatting. Perhaps the styles in the document did not have the formatting you thought, or the bug you mention somehow corrupted the program, preventing the proper display of style names.

There is a bug - which I don't have time at the moment to reproduce reliably - to do with applying multiple "undo"s after trying to define new paragraph style which contains a list style. As an aside ,this is far to difficult to do. Why isn't the list style part of a the paragraph style?I would like to be able to click in a paragraph which is list style and be able to define a new paragraph style which is defined by all the paragraph and list attributes of that paragraph.

I didn't have any trouble with this. I selected some text in a paragraph that had a list item and chose the menu Insert > New Style > Based on Selection. The newly created paragraph style had the same list style applied. I also tried to undo (and redo) the creation with no trouble. Perhaps I'm doing something differently than you?