Bug 89827 - Updating style options to another style
Summary: Updating style options to another style
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.4.1.1 rc
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2015-03-04 20:49 UTC by mahfiaz
Modified: 2019-03-30 17:32 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Proposed way 1 to copy style options over (121.94 KB, image/png)
2015-03-18 21:01 UTC, mahfiaz
Details
Proposed way 2 to copy style options over (58.34 KB, image/png)
2015-03-18 21:02 UTC, mahfiaz
Details

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Description mahfiaz 2015-03-04 20:49:58 UTC
I want to copy style options from Heading 1 style to Heading 2 style.
1) I place the cursor to Heading 1,
2a) then select Heading 2 from Styles and Formatting
3a) and finally pick "Update style"

or 2b) from standard toolbar open styles dropdown, next to heading 2 press little down arrow
3) and press click "Update to match the selection"

Both of these update Heading 1 style, although I specifically tried to update Heading 2.



(Note: If copying style options over this way is not wanted, then at least the standard toolbar styles dropdown should not have "Update to match the selection" button active, it would be confusing)
Comment 1 mahfiaz 2015-03-18 21:01:59 UTC
Created attachment 114174 [details]
Proposed way 1 to copy style options over
Comment 2 mahfiaz 2015-03-18 21:02:19 UTC
Created attachment 114175 [details]
Proposed way 2 to copy style options over
Comment 3 mahfiaz 2015-03-18 21:06:07 UTC
Please note that proposed way 2 also exposes a bug. The Update to match selection button there for every other style than the currently selected one does nothing. Proposed change would make these buttons useful and therefore fix the bug.
Comment 4 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-03-19 14:54:31 UTC
(In reply to mahfiaz from comment #0)
> I want to copy style options from Heading 1 style to Heading 2 style.
> 1) I place the cursor to Heading 1,
> 2a) then select Heading 2 from Styles and Formatting
> 3a) and finally pick "Update style"

Sounds like a plausible improvement idea.
Status -> NEW

(In reply to mahfiaz from comment #3)
> Please note that proposed way 2 also exposes a bug. The Update to match
> selection button there for every other style than the currently selected one
> does nothing. Proposed change would make these buttons useful and therefore
> fix the bug.

So should this be an enhancement request, or a true bug report? (I'll let you opine on that :-)
Comment 5 mahfiaz 2015-03-19 18:41:38 UTC
Fixing that little bug would probably be much easier. So it's more an enhancement.
Comment 6 mahfiaz 2019-03-30 17:32:34 UTC
Using parent style to inherit properties from solves this use case in a better way (and is already present).

Closing this enhancement request, I think there are better things to work on.