I have a document with a number of paragraph styles. I'm trying to change the text size on one of the styles, but I can't get it to apply to the entire document. I click on a word in a paragraph, change the text size, but the UPDATE button next to the style doesn't appear.
OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Clicking in the paragraph then double clicking the style name will force the style onto the paragraph.
It will eliminate all variations, such as Italic or bold.
Peter
Yes, but I need to change it everywhere the style is used. When I do what you say it only changes the style for that paragraph.
Once you have established the style in that paragraph, then update the Style, it may have had a mixed style.
Peter
I've tried that, it changes some of the paragraphs, but not all.
Then it comes down to what is different about the ones that don't change.
Are they in fact Styled?
To give you any further advice you need to tell us more about what is happening, we can't see what you are looking at and don't even know what version of Pages you are talking about.
Peter
Well, I tried to make sure I used the style every time, and when I click into the paragraph the style indicator does change, so I have to assume so. Posting them here wouldn't help since I'm sure the styling would be removed.
If I click inside a paragraph that I changed then I see the type size at 10. If I click inside one that I did not change then I see the size as 11, they style sidebar has the name of the style with an * and the UPDATE button present. If I click on UPDATE then that paragraph changes, but the others do not. It seems I have to go into every paragraph to change it individually.
If there is anything I can provide, let me know.
It sounds like you are updating from what you don't want, rather than to what you do want.
The * indicates that the paragraph is changed from the original Style.
The style you have selected when you click on the Update button is the one all the text of that style will be updated to. It is the model for all the others.
Then the paragraph should not show and *.
Peter
I have the same problem that Mike described (about a year ago). The solution offered by Peter Breis, "The style you have selected when you click on the Update button is the one all the text of that style will be updated to" is not helpful to me because:
But I don't want to update the style, I wish to update the selected paragraph WITH the (already correct) style.
If, in #2 above, instead of clicking 'Update', I re-select the desired style name, it fixes that instance. But I have to find and change every 'broken' instance - this defeats the purpose of styled text!
The expected behavior is that when I have text selected and 'Update' the style, all other text with that style should be updated accordingly. If it worked that way, I wouldn't have to attempt to fix other instances of that style with #2 above (I say 'attempt' because doing #2 above simply changes the style definition to that of the text ISN'T styled properly.
It worked as expected in earlier versions of Pages '09, under Lion.
Issue changing paragraph style
