Description: The rationale for changing the Styles box in the menu bar in v 7.6 to include only the styles used in the document is incomprehensible and has rendered that feature completely useless. It is obvious that the person who had this idea has used LO Writer very little and does not know anything about Styles. The change in 7.6 makes the drop-down box of zero use to the creator of a new document, and it makes the function of importing styles from a template much less valuable. Please change it back to the way it was in 7.5 and prior versions. I don't want to have to revert to 7.5 to make Writer usable again. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a new Writer document. 2. Try to access both used and available styles in the Styles box in the menu bar. 3. The Style box has been rendered almost worthless by the changes made to 7.6 Actual Results: Styles not used already in the document no longer appear in the Styles box in the menu bar; that's irritating, and making the change in 7.6 was unnecessary and undesirable. Expected Results: Expected to see both used and available styles, as launching the Styles sidebar on the right side of the screen often is not convenient or helpful, especially if I am working with a split screen. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Leave things alone that don't need to be changed, please.
Please post a screen clip. And version details from the main menu Help -> About dialog. As is we have no idea which UI element you are complaining about nor which UI MUFFIN flavor if any is in use.
Created attachment 189212 [details] Styles drop-down box The dropdown box in v 7.6 now contains only styles that exist in the document, whereas in 7.5 and prior it contained "standard" or "available" styles not yet used in the document, but available for use; such as: Title, Subtitle, Heading 1, etc.
The relevant enhancement request is bug 152666. Please see there the rationale.
(In reply to larrybradley from comment #0) > Styles not used already in the document no longer appear in the Styles box > in the menu bar; that's irritating Why don't you give the Stylist a try (guessing your workflow was to pick styles from what the dropdown offers)? https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/guide/stylist_update.html (In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #3) > The relevant enhancement request is bug 152666. Please see there the > rationale. =>NAB Please reopen if you have an idea how to improve the styles drowdown content. It shows me Default, Body Text, Title, Subtitle, H1-H4, Block Quotation, and Preformatted Text for new documents, AFAIR the same as in the past.
*** Bug 157682 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I don't think, at this point, it is worth anyone's time or effort to keep talking about this. I'm not sure how to drop the request (close the ticket), so I would ask that those to whom the Bug was reported to close the request. Thanks to all, and sorry for wasting your time.