Editing styles is an exquisite kind of torture

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#1

I have an existing document with many styles, standard and custom ones. Let’s say my text cursor is on a “Body Text” paragraph, and I wish to change the settings of a “Heading N” one.
From the Styles list I then scroll (if needed) and right-click on “Heading N”, and from the contextual menu select “Edit Style…”, all is fine. But as I’m done, and try the same on another style (quickly enough) the window scrolls and/or reselects “Body Text”, sometimes even after I’ve already selected “Edit Style…”.
Then I’m canceling, going back, scrolling again, clicking slowly, waiting for it to be stable, right-click again…

Making many changes to restyle a document with visual feedback, is a fine torment. I find it so frustrating that I’m telling myself it’s not possible that everybody works this way, so: is there something flawed in my setup?

#2

When editing an existing document, it is easier if you filter the styles pane to Applied Styles. It should be shorter, even fitting into the pane so scrolling is not needed.

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#4

Yes, that’s what I mostly do: save the scroll (when styles are few), my issue is still the same, with selection going back to where the cursor is

#5

Yes, many update operations in the UI are delayed to an “idle” state of the application, even with a timeout, which may create the experience you describe. Well, currently we can’t find a way to make it immediate, and at the same time, not introduce a lot of other problems.

E.g., Diff - de18a4ee448cf393a69592a75201eca05b90cb5f^! - core - Gitiles

#6

There may be another workflow. Usually documents from the same author have a common look (guided by author’s personal taste). Then it is simpler to base all documents on a template (special document with extension .ott).

When tuning your styles, you can have the template open in a window and the document in another one. Since the template mostly contains styles, there won’t be delay or scrolling when you modify them.

To update the document, save the template, switch to document window and File>Reload. You’ll be asked to accept the new styles and, unfortunately, you’ll scroll back to document beginning.

#7

Er… I’m editing both existing documents (with some complex styling, to which I just have to adhere) and adapting a template - it’s in this reworking that I experienced the issue

#8

Yes, I understand - maybe I just hoped that some magic wand solution was there to fix it or fix me.

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