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Blue Shirt Thursday
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September 14, 2016
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Editing Character Styles in the CC Library

  • September 14, 2016
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Hi,

My team at work are using a shared Library to keep our designs consistent. We share colors, graphics, and character styles. If our graphic standards change, we can easily right-click on a Color or Graphic in the Library and choose Edit to update that item and it will update everyone's documents automatically.

The problem we are running into is that there doesn't seem to be a way to edit Character Styles in the Library. We have tried updating the style in a document and pushed it to the Library with the same file name hoping it would over-write the old style but it doesn't. We end up with two Character Styles with the same name just different properties. Then we have to go through every document and manually apply the new Character Style which we think defeats the purpose of the Library.

Is there something we are doing wrong or is the edit feature just not available for Character Styles in the Library? If the Edit option isn't available has anyone found a work-around to edit a Character Style in the Library so our documents will automatically update?

Thanks
Nick

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Correct answer Haeme Ulrich

Hi Nick

The edit feature isn't yet available for Character and Paragraph Styles. The styles are also not linked to the styles in the document.

Best

Haeme Ulrich

5 replies

Barbara_Triptyque
Participant
May 4, 2023
the_wise_bunny
Participating Frequently
July 2, 2022

Well this is annoying - quite possibly one of the most potentially useful features of cc libraries - both for indivusal designers wanting to save time and for teams to share resources, and Adobe don't look like they can be bothered to develop it. After six years I think we can assume its dead. Ho hum.

CypherPoet
Known Participant
June 19, 2022

Then we have to go through every document and manually apply the new Character Style which we think defeats the purpose of the Library.

 

This x 1000

Participant
June 29, 2020

Still waiting for this feature too!

Haeme Ulrich
Haeme UlrichCorrect answer
Inspiring
September 16, 2016

Hi Nick

The edit feature isn't yet available for Character and Paragraph Styles. The styles are also not linked to the styles in the document.

Best

Haeme Ulrich

shuaces
Participant
February 28, 2020

Is there any update, or plan to add support for editing Character and Paragraph Styles in the Library?

 

Thanks.

Joshua

Participant
May 29, 2020

I have the exact same issue. Working on a graphic profile for a company with different A-format templates and would really really be convenient if our paragraph-styles were synced (so if editing in one doc, all others were updated) and editable.