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can't paste text into after effects

Forum|Forum|1 day ago
July 16, 2026
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I can no longer copy text from illustrator and paste it into after effects.
It used to copy and paste, including formatting. But now nothing at all happens!

R

RobShultz

Community Expert

Please make sure to have clicked with the Text Tool before pasting.

Is your After Effects up to date?

Could you share your operating system and system specs with is please?

J

jgjerde

Adobe Employee

Hi alisons79155507,

Are you referring to having a text only selection in Illustrator and pasting that into a text layer in AE?

If not can you provide some more details about what type of objects are in the selection that isn’t working and what the selected target is (comp, layer) for pasting into AE?