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Cant select last letter in a line of text - After Effects v 22.1.x and v22.x

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March 28, 2022
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Hello, I have an issue in AE where if I click and drag on a line of text it wont let me select the last letter, this happens if I click and drag left, or right. I have no idea what is causing this.

I thought it was the GPU - I have an Zotac RTX3080 I swapped it out for an RTX 3070 and am still having the same issue. I uninstalled AE Juice as that seems to cause random problems with AE now, and am struggling to figure out what may be causing this.

I have a Core i9 10920x an Asus Rog X299E mother board, 64gb of Ram DDR 3600 (XMP is on) and the Zotac RTX 3080 - I have updated graphics drivers and still no luck.

I was running two 4K monitors, and have unplugged on thinking that maybe that was an issue, but no luck.

Please help. I am losing my mind with this problem.

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Correct answer Rameez_Khan

Hi all,

After Effects 23.0, released a few hours ago, has fixed this issue.

Thanks,

Rameez

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Tony Zed

Known Participant

I had the problem in 22.3, it was fixed in 22.4, then when I updated to 22.5 the problem is back again. With all the client work I have, and just can't afford to mess with it so I just rolled back to 22.4 and am not going to update again until 22.6 comes out. What drives me f**king mad though is that every single time I turn on my computer for the last like 2-3 months I get a notification "Adobe After Effects has an available update" and I look and it's still 22.5. So it's like I'm reminded every single day. Having a broken version of After Effects shoved in my face has become part of my computers startup ritual. Fingers crossed 22.6 will have the issues resolved. I generally love all my adobe products, but this does really make me feel like we're all paying good money to be a bunch of beta testers for adobe.

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Douglas_Waterfall

Adobe Employee

This particular problem will NOT be fixed in 22.6 - it will be available in Beta first.

Douglas Waterfall

After Effects Engineering

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jesmo71

Known Participant

*Head exploding*. Why on earth would you release another version of AE without first fixing a fundemental operation? This is a fundamental operation for almost all apps on the planet, not even something that is special in AE. How is this not a priority? To be completely honest, everyday operation is far more important than adding some new features. New feautres do us no good if we can't use the program efficiently because of poor basic programming. This is incredibly frustrating to know this was not prioritized.

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Douglas_Waterfall

Adobe Employee

Just a quick note from me, busy working on a fix and trying hard to not make it worse - it is a painful break for you folks and a lot of work on my side and I would really rather not go through all this again either.

Text hit testing and selection are insanely complicated topics and it is super easy to break something else as an unintended side effect of what seems like an obviously easy fix - which is what evidently happened in this case.

One has to be being extremel careful and test as many edge cases as can be imagined and as it happens along the way I found two unreported separate obscure failures as well, one seems quite rare the other less so. Mixed LTR/RTL selection actually got better imho.

Anyway, I had hoped to have a complete solution in Beta by today but it was not to be. So, still soon.

Douglas Waterfall

After Effects Engineering

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jesmo71

Known Participant

Douglas,

Thank you for the response. I'm sure everyone is glad to see this is being dealt with, and we all await your update as soon as possible.

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MatijaHNTV

Participating Frequently

Photoshop is getting worse by every update.

My workaround this bug is I put the cursor in the text and hit CTRL+A to select the entire text...or...if I need to select an entire word (like the last word in the sentence where I can't select the last character), I put the cursor where I want to start selecting then I press and hold SHIFT and use the right arrow key to select the word character by character. Annoying, but it works.

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jamesm46355552

Inspiring

Hi, I'm getting this on the latest version. Until Adobe come up with a fix, is there an obvious workaround? Liking the lastest version apart from this bug. Running it on m1 Max & seems to be pretty amazing.

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Artur24099353d20g

Participant

Still the isue. very anoying

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Lee Garcia

Participating Frequently

Please solve this bug, is really annoying...Still there today!

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Niagara Niagara

Participant

also having this issue since updating to 22.5.0

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Manish2521608924iv

Participant

Just Double click on the font, that's it,

but this is ridiculous adobe is acquiring the entire market.

JBrown321

Known Participant

This is about drag selecting specific characters, not the entire word or line. It's a bug they are aware of and hope they fix asap.

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Totochki

Participant

I have exactly the same problem. It is just so annoying. Come on Adobe, do something about it !

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HUP-GFX

Participant

Is there any update from Adobe? I'm having a nightmare as I need to select and separately kern the second to last and last letter... its impossible not being able to select the last letter!

Warren Heaton

Community Expert

@HUP-GFX

The issue in this thread is about selecting an entire line of text via click and drag, not about placing the text prompt between characters to adjust kerning.

Are you having difficulty clicking between characters to get the text prompt?

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karen5C5C

Participating Frequently

You have to be able to drag over adjoining characters to tweak kerning/tracking. THAT is the issue. It is making everyone here crazy, including me. I have a whole project that needs specialty formatting and this is adding a ton of time to my workflow. NOT acceptable.

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Graphicswithk25094817jyk1

Participant

I am having the same issue and I think I found a solution. All you have to do is double click inside the text box you may have to click more then two times but that has been highlighting all the letter.

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Gleeful_idealist5CB5

Participant

R click and select all