https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162790
--- Comment #3 from ady <[email protected]> --- @Marc, This behavior seems to need some clarification, or at least to emphasize the precise problem. If you modify an attribute / property to an entire cell (e.g. change the font size or font type to the cell), then the procedure you describe (i.e. select several cells and change the font to all the selected range) should indeed affect the selected cells. But this is not the case you describe in comment 0. You are not editing/formatting a cell – let me emphasize this as "entire cell" – but instead you are selecting _part_ of the content of a cell and applying some specific format to that part. Imagine the opposite situation. A user wants to keep the very specific format of that part of a cell, while providing a general consistent format to the rest of the cells. Imagine that there is not one but several of this specifically-formatted strings in several cells. Even a simple mistake of selecting the "wrong" cells would trash all that careful specific formatting previously performed on specific parts of cells. So, if the entire cell has the same font, then the expected behavior is as you described. But if the cell contains different format settings within it, then these specific partially-formatted cells are not affected by the same relevant format when the entire cell is selected as part of a range (or even by itself). In other words, you either have to change the specific selection within each cell, or you have to clear the direct formatting first (as suggested in comment 1) in order for that cell to react "as a whole". To be clear, this should only affect the specific format you modified (say, bold) to the specific text within the cell. The other format settings that you haven't altered for that specific part of that cell should react according to the formatting that you apply to the selected range of cells (say, italics). Please confirm whether the behavior you see is indeed as I have just described. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
