Bug 105563

Summary:	Add function "Update Style format to Match Selection"
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Spectas Riogrande <abo>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	miguelangelrv
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.2.0.4 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Spectas Riogrande 2017-01-26 23:17:46 UTC

Description:
It would be useful to have a simple way to customize a heading style
just from the changes you did directly to the text.
E.g. you want to change the font or the color in a style. Right now you
have to right-click on the style format and edit it in the sub menus.
This then leads to the changes in the text parts which use this format
style.
It would be great to have a simple way to also do it the other way
around: changing the format directly in the text an then transfering
this new setting to the whole underlying format style.

After having changed directly e.g. the font color of a text, it should
be possible to right-click on the corresponding style format and to find
a setting "Update Style format to Match Selection".
Also MS Word found a way to do this
(https://support.office.com/en-US/article/Add-a-heading-3EB8B917-56DC-4A17-891A-A026B2C790F2)
and it would be good to have it too.

What would be a nice extra feature: show in brackets the changes (font:
Courier; style: bold; size:16pt), which you would update to this style.

Thanks a lot!


Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:
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Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0

Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2017-01-27 02:22:16 UTC

On the 'Organizer' tab of paragraph style there is an option to 'Autoupdate'
where you can see what the style modifies from the inherited.
"
AutoUpdate 
Updates the style when you apply direct formatting to a paragraph using this style in your document. The formatting of all paragraphs using this style is automatically updated.
"
Also on the right icon on Sytles & Formatting, there is an option to update the style.