P: Ability to organize and reorder Paragraph / Character Styles in the Styles panel via drag & drop

Can we please have the ability to re-order the styles? As designers who need things to be consistent and orderly, it can be very frustrating/inconvenient to have your Paragraph Styles go: H1, H2, H3, Body Copy, H4, H5.

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No wonder so many designers are starting to move to Sketch and other solutions. This is really not acceptable for 2016. This is such a frustratingly simple request that so many designers require.

Still not addressed as of November 2015 with the CC 2015.1 update.

I notice that Adobe is trying to focus more on functionality for web and graphic designers in Photoshop, eg. the new Design Space & Artboard features. But It's quite common that these kinds of users have dozens of styles in their documents, and we still have to put up with a messy Styles palette where items can't be moved or arranged into folders (like you can with InDesign or Illustrator).

I get that things on this forum only get addressed based on how many votes it attracts. But there's clearly a subgroup of users here that are going nuts because we can't do basic things like this that help us stay productive, and the complaints have been accumulating here for over 2 years... I feel like it'll never happen and I will have to go back to Illustrator once again to do website layouts, which is just insane.

Is there anyone at Adobe who can give us a quick update on when we might expect this minor amendment to take place?

Adding my voice to this request.

It definitely is difficult to manage paragraph (and character) styles once a bunch of them are in use.

The absence of this feature definitely impacts the otherwise versatile nature of p&c styles.

Try to switch back from Sketch 3 to the new Photoshop 2015, because a lot of big efforts don't work very well and the software is still buggy. So i looked really forward to the new cc Version with artboards and all the new things for web- and ui-designers. But the missing feature to order the paragraph formats makes it so unintuitiv to work with. If i design a mobile, tablet and desktop version in one file, it would be great to also collect the styles in folders, because an h1 title in the desktop layout is often not the same, as on the mobile layout. Why does this little feature take so much time to implement?
A absolute minimum of help would be, if the paragraphs could displayed in an alphabetical order, so i could rename the formats, beginning with numbers or something similar, to bring it in a useful order i can work with?
Sorry, i'm german speaking and my english isn't very well.

Any updates on the progress of this Dave? It looks like we still can't reorder or classify styles as of June 2015. It's really important functionality for web and mobile app developers and I still have to do my mockups in Illustrator just so I can manage text styles which seems crazy...

Well it seems this update hasn't yet made it into the latest update to Photoshop (June 2015) making it completely unmanageable for working on a document with anything more than a dozen text styles in it (eg a mobile app or website mockup, which seems to be where Adobe is pushing Photoshop these days).

I can't tell you how frustrating it is to create a bunch of styles and then not have the ability to reorder them or put them in folders like you can in all the other Adobe programs. It took 4 years for the Glyphs panel to appear since it was first suggested... How long will it take to get this fixed once and for all?

Any news on if this is likely to appear in the next PS update? Also it would be great if we could also use folders in the panels to organise styles, as you can currently do in InDesign.

Actually, what I mean is that due to other constraints, we have not had a chance to add the functionality you've requested.  You may have noted, however, that we've added other functionality to this and other features.

I'm personally a fan of doing the work you suggest, but it needs to be balanced against all the other work and priorities we have.  Perhaps you work in a domain with infinite resources and no constraints?

I think what David means is that Adobe has a 50% consistency policy across their software. In other words 50% might be consistent, the other 50% will not be. If things are too consistent then they become too user friendly, which in turn reduces the need to upgrade in the hope that the next version will be more user friendly.

The only way to stay in business is to create a suite of applications that only sort of work together, but fail in key fundamental areas that you depend on, and then promise customers that the next version will be better.