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0017754ScribusText Frames / Story Editorpublic2026-02-18 00:21
ReporterLynn Assigned To 
PrioritylowSeverityfeatureReproducibilityN/A
Status newResolutionopen 
Product Version1.7.2 
Summary0017754: Optional warning if applying change to text chain?
DescriptionThe 0000001 mistake I make in Scribus for long documents, over and over, is assuming I've double clicked into a frame when I think I've single clicked. Somehow, I will end up (unknowingly) not actually in edit mode and will unhyphenate the entire text chain, or apply a character style to the entire text chain etc. Sometimes the change I make accidentally will be pretty subtle and I won't notice for another 20 pages that I've messed up my document; then I have to circle back to an old save and redo those pages again. For my purposes, there's exactly once when I want to be able to apply a change to the whole text chain - when I first hyphenate a book.

It would be great if you could toggle off the feature that changing the settings of the selected frame changes those features for every frame in the text chain. But even having an optional warning message pop up ("You are applying this change to X text frames. Continue?") would be amazing.
Additional InformationProbably a pie-in-the-sky request but I wanted to mention how often this feature trips me up. In two different book demos I did over the weekend I managed to accidentally apply the default character style to my entire book unintentionally, overwriting all my character formatting.
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