To effectively change a style in Writer, we must go to the styles tab, then open each style to modify independently. This process is lengthy when there is a lot of styling to manage. We should be able to easily manage styles: either directly from the sidebar (with direct access options), or in the style modification window (in the first organizer/manager tab, we should be able to choose the style we want to modify). This development would make it possible to avoid the recurring bug for years, but never corrected, which prevents the updating of a style from the selection.
(In reply to grishka@zaclys.net from comment #0) > We should be able to easily manage styles: either directly from the sidebar > (with direct access options), Context menu of each style in sidebar has "Edit Style" option. If you take into account hierarchy of style it's for example easy to change font of all heading styles, just by change font of style "Heading". I don't understand, what enancement is needed here. Could you please explain? => NEEDINFO > or in the style modification window (in the > first organizer/manager tab, we should be able to choose the style we want > to modify). I think, this is already possible (see above). Please explain the problem => NEEDINFO > > This development would make it possible to avoid the recurring bug for > years, but never corrected, which prevents the updating of a style from the > selection. Please add number of that bug report. => NEEDINFO
(In reply to Dieter from comment #1) Thank you for your answer. > Context menu of each style in sidebar has "Edit Style" option. If you take > into account hierarchy of style it's for example easy to change font of all > heading styles, just by change font of style "Heading". I don't understand, > what enancement is needed here. Could you please explain? => NEEDINFO I regularly use the hierarchy to modify titles or to format my summary. However, this is not a request of this type. On the contrary, I like to configure (and I'm not the only one) individual and non-hierarchical styles (or on body text level). For example: a quotation paragraph, an exergue paragraph, a “Nota bene” paragraph, etc. What I want is not to have to open and close this style modification window multiple times to program my formatting: my proposal is to gain flexibility and formatting time. > > or in the style modification window (in the first organizer/manager tab, we should be able to choose the style we want to modify). > I think, this is already possible (see above). Please explain the problem => > NEEDINFO You write that "we should be able to choose the style we want" in the first manager tab of the "paragraph style" window. You specify that you "think" it is already possible. But that is indeed my request : this is precisely not possible. We should be able to access the "NAME" text bloc, from which a list would allow us to choose the name of the style that we want to modify and an option should be able to allow us to directly add a style at this level. > > This development would make it possible to avoid the recurring bug for years, but never corrected, which prevents the updating of a style from the selection. > Please add number of that bug report. => NEEDINFO Sorry, https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76084 (This is not really a bug, but rather an unintuitive behavior. When you want to modify a document, whose styles have already programmed, activating the "update selected style" option does not always work (this requires us to go through the style modification window).