Bug 170412 - Character spotlight disappears upon changing character style
Summary: Character spotlight disappears upon changing character style
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
26.8.0.0 alpha0+ master
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: Sidebar-Styles
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Reported: 2026-01-21 09:56 UTC by Gabor Kelemen (Collabora)
Modified: 2026-01-21 10:01 UTC (History)
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Example file from Writer with character style and direct formatting (15.88 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2026-01-21 09:56 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (Collabora)
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The document before changing character style (107.31 KB, image/png)
2026-01-21 09:56 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (Collabora)
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The document after changing character style (105.88 KB, image/png)
2026-01-21 09:57 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (Collabora)
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Description Gabor Kelemen (Collabora) 2026-01-21 09:56:27 UTC
Created attachment 205112 [details]
Example file from Writer with character style and direct formatting

If the character spotlight is enabled and the character style is modified, then the spotlight marking is disappearing from the document.

1. Open attached document. It has a paragraph of text with character style Quotation and some of its words have direct formatting.
2. In the sidebar go to the Styles - Character tab, enable the Spotlight box
-> The text is marked with the spotlight, including the directly formatted words
3. Press Ctrl-A, and set a different character style in the sidebar, e.g. Strong Emphasis
-> The spotlight coloring disappears from the text.

If the direct formatting is not applied to some words, then the character style change does not remove the spotlight marking.

Version: 26.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64)
Build ID: 680(Build:0)
CPU threads: 24; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: hu-HU (hu_HU); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Gabor Kelemen (Collabora) 2026-01-21 09:56:51 UTC
Created attachment 205113 [details]
The document before changing character style
Comment 2 Gabor Kelemen (Collabora) 2026-01-21 09:57:11 UTC
Created attachment 205114 [details]
The document after changing character style