[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 89960] New: Suggestion to Change Style Behavior in Relation to Direct Formatting

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89960

            Bug ID: 89960
           Summary: Suggestion to Change Style Behavior in Relation to
                    Direct Formatting
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: Inherited From OOo
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: ux-advise
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: jmadero.dev at gmail.com
                CC: libreoffice-ux-advise at lists.freedesktop.org

There are essentially two ways that a user might apply a style:
1. Select the style in advance, then start typing;
2. Have text already written and then select it, and apply a style.

Suggestion to change behavior of the interaction between styles and direct
formatting to address these two different use cases.

For #1 (selecting style in advance and then typing);
*This should overwrite any direct formatting that has been previously applied
in the document.
**For a demonstration of why this should be the case, please take a look at bug
83726
***Note that this would be equivalent of doing ctrl + m and then applying the
style

For #2 (have text already, then apply style)
*Suggest that a dialog appears if there is any direct formatting applied in the
selected text (i.e. if a word is italicized, bolded, etc…) that says something
like “do you want the style to overwrite any direct formatting in the selected
text”
**This can be similar to the dialog that appears in Calc if you copy/paste into
a cell that already has a value
**This should have an option to say “do this every time.”

This should avoid breaking the workflow of people used to the current behavior,
and add the ability to make it more intuitive for those who find the current
process counter-intuitive (those who want a style to be applied uniformly every
time). Talking on QA channel and on user mailing list makes me think that the
current situation is counter-intuitive to a fair number of people. Also I know
at least a couple bugs have been closed because people were unaware of the
direct formatting always taking precedent over styles. At least some users –
myself included – think that if I have taken the time to define a style, I want
that style to apply the same way, every single time.

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