Formatting toolbar missing in Lucidchart

Same here. this is such a bad decision on Lucid’s part. I cannot even do simple stuff like change colors or fonts! 

Hi ​@BennyT 

Follow this community thread to learn more on this - Unable to see the Top Taskbar ribbon | Community

Also the Menu options and the formatting bar,

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Hope this helps !!

I’m ok with the move to standardised however I cannot find the Paste Format option anywhere in the menu. Please advise where it is located

Thanks for the detailed response. This does clear up where and how the Paste Format went to and how it works now.

However I’d like to feedback to the UI team that this has made it much more complicated/involved in what was a very simple task. Even with this menu method, there isn’t a way to keep the selected format on hold so that it can be applied to multiple shapes with one-click. Bit hard to explain but this ability was previously available (and is on most other software applications) by double-clicking on the Paste Format button then clicking on the shapes to be changed. 

Now the process is to manually select each shape while holding the Ctl key down then right-clicking and selecting Paste Format. Not ideal when trying to apply to a large amount of shape spread out on a complex diagram. 

In essence, the unification of the UI has significantly reduced the functionality and ease of use of LucidCharts.

​@BennyT Thank you for following up and for providing additional details about your experience!

You can also copy the shape style by using the Paint Format tool. To do so:

1. Select the shape with the style you want to copy.
2. Click the Paint Format icon from the Formatting bar at the top-left of the workspace.
3. Select the objects you want the style applied to.
   • A single click will activate paint format for one selection change. A double-click will activate paint format until the button is clicked again or ESC is pressed on the keyboard. As such:

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Cheers!

err this whole thread is because that entire Formatting toolbar has been removed from the latest update, supposedly as part of the UI unification with other Lucid apps.

if that’s incorrect and there is a way to re-enable that toolbar, please let me know as that will resolve all my issues in one go.