Style assignment lost after applying it to text

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Hi All,
I just started having this happen in my manuscrpt. It says no style, after I just have formatted it with a style and it changes the text but it still says no style on the upper left.

What should I do? I was reading through the chain, was this issue ever resolved?

Thanks.
Samantha

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I split this off to its own new thread, because I donā€™t think the one you were replying to is relevant. It was a feedback thread on changes made to how a specific command works to remove styles and formatting from text (and specifically how much that command should remove). It seems the issue youā€™re describing is however the opposite, if I follow correctly? You are having troubles getting a style to stick to some text?

I have never seen that happen, nor can I recall anything recently reported about it. Could you please break down the steps it takes for others to follow along? Here is what I tried:

  1. Created a new test project from the ā€œBlankā€ starter.

  2. Into the starter document, typed in:

    Line one.
Line two.
Line three.

  3. Placed the cursor into the second line, and applied the ā€œBlock Quoteā€ sample style to the paragraph, using the Format Bar.

    The formatting immediately changes, indenting it.

  4. I move the cursor up and down a line, returning it to the middle line.

    It remains marked as ā€œBlock Quoteā€, in the Format Bar, main menu, and floating Styles panel, if I open that.

Please go through the above steps, and document the modifications necessary to see the condition you are seeing.

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Hi AmberV,
Iā€™m sorry about the thread. I thought I was in the right place. I dont want to upset anyone, just trying to figure out Scrivner

I followed what you wrote above and it worked in the example you gave. However when I followed it in the text I have already written the oddity remains.

As for repeating it.

I go into the Binder, I click on a text in the binder, I select some text I have written, I go to change it from No Style to another style like Centered text. It changes the font but it keeps it as No Style in the drop down. The font changes as though it is reflecting the style but the style title at the top drop down does not change. There is no ā€˜checkā€™ mark in the style section either.

What else should I try?

I have also tried creating a new text document in the binder, I copied all the text I have written (that I want to change to another style) and it still does the odd ā€˜no styleā€™ thing.

I have also tried coping it into word, clear all formatting, thinking maybe somehow the text is ā€˜holdingā€™ onto something and when I copy it back into a new text in the binder, the no style still thing stays.

Advise?

Thanks,
Samantha

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Oh, no worries at all! I just like to keep things tidy and easier to find in the future.

It changes the font but it keeps it as No Style in the drop down. The font changes as though it is reflecting the style but the style title at the top drop down does not change. There is no ā€˜checkā€™ mark in the style section either.

Yes, you definitely should be seeing a checkmark in that dropdown (the main menu doesnā€™t have a checkmark, but it highlights the style icon). I would agree that maybe there is something not right about the formatting of this text and maybe it is causing problems.

What happens if you try this:

  1. In the main editor, press CtrlA to Select All, and then CtrlC to Copy.
  2. Now click the green + button in the main toolbar to create a new binder item right after the one we copied text from.
  3. Click into the empty editor, and use the Edit ā–ø Paste and Match Style menu command.

Now try styling this text. This command pastes only the plain text, so it is the same as pasting into Notepad, and then copying from Notepad into Scrivener. This will also cause the text to use your default font and paragraph formattingā€”and we know that is okay because the blank project test you tried worked fine.

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