<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - FORMATTING: Style changes not applied to specific cells with multiple selection" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143792#c3">Comment # 3</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - FORMATTING: Style changes not applied to specific cells with multiple selection" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143792">bug 143792</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:fabio@markdata.pt" title="fabio <fabio@markdata.pt>"> fabio</a> <pre>(In reply to Mike Kaganski from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=143792#c2">comment #2</a>) > In fact, no. It only works "as expected" when the cell is *focused* (...) Thanks for clarifying my description. While I know that there is a difference between selection and focus, I failed to describe the behaviour difference in those terms as you did for me. > And the reason for the difference is that applying a property to *cells > selection* only applies it to cell level; while applying it to a focused > cell in the absence of selection *additionally* goes inside the cell (...) >From a technical standpoint I can understand why it may make sense that style changes are applied "recursively" or not depending on the context, but from an end-user user perspective I still find it misleading that selecting cells that only contain non-bold text and pressing "Bold" results in cells in "bold" state but no visual difference. But surely something being unexpected for a single user does not mean it is a bug. :) > This is similar to Writer's relations between Paragraph-level > and Character-level direct formatting, (...) Taking your analogy with Writer, that I find useful, I still have a couple of questions: (1) In Writer, if we do "Select All" and "Bold" in a document with diverse mixed paragraph and character level formatting, the result is that all the text becomes bold. In Calc, if I do the same steps I may end up with some cells that are effectively bold and others that still display non-bold text. Does this difference make sense? (2) If it's a question of formatting not being applied "recursively" to text spans inside the cell in some cases, why is font size always applied and respected (either using focus or selection) while, for example, font face is not? Apologise me in case these questions may have trivial questions that I could not antecipate or if they dodn't make much sense in the context of a bug report but I'm just trying to undertand the situation better. Thanks for your comments and your time.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>