[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 128787] UI: menu path Format - Styles - New style from selection does not work

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128787

--- Comment #4 from Gerhard Weydt <gerhard.weydt at t-online.de> ---
(In reply to sdc.blanco from comment #3)
> I think this is NAB  -- coming from a misunderstanding about "New style from
> selection"
> 
> "New style from selection" is an action to create a new Paragraph
> (Character, Page) style from an existing style.  
> 
> If a Shape (e.g. rectangle) is selected - then the menu item (Styles>Select
> new style from selection) will be greyed out.  (also in 6.3.4.2 if a Shape
> is selected, then the "styles action" icon in the Styles sidebar is greyed
> out).
> 
> If you place the cursor in a paragraph style, and use the same menu command,
> then it will be active again. (and you can see what it is used for)
> 
> @Gerhard -- to change format of your shapes, select and right-click
> 
> (In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #2)
> > @Jim, I thought you might be interested in this issue...
> 
> @Jim,  Will be interesting to see what "magic" you can make here... (-:

Obviously , you are talking about Writer, but the component of this bug report
is Draw!
And even in Writer it is not the key point that the new paragraph style is
created from the existing one (there's always a style, at least the default
style): select an entire paragraph and set another colour, then use the
command, in Writer it works with the menu as well as with the sidebar. The new
style will use the colour set beforehand, the new style is created using the
atttributes set manually, when they differ from the old style. That's the
meaning of this command!
The reason for the command being grayed out in Writer when selecting a drawing
object is, that there are no drawing styles in Writer!
And, as I said, the sidebar command is working in Draw, so there's no
misunderstanding the command, the function seems simply not be called from the
menu entry.

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