ISSUE: while pasting editable text, its converting automatically to shape

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March 17, 2025
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Hello Friends,

I facing a weird issue in Illustrator, while pasting editable text, created by just click and drag the text tool. The font is installed in my system and its happen with any font. I ran through google and chatGPT but didn't got solution on this.

please help to stop this behavour.

Correct answer Ton Frederiks

That sounds like a 3rd party app interfering with the clipboard.

Can you check what's running simultaneously with Illustrator?

Monika Gause

Community Expert

This is a list of things that are known to interfere:

Parallels Toolbox running with the Clipboard History
LogoTech Keyboard management software
TeamVewer Clipboard > Use Shared Clipboard
Apple iOS device simulator from Xcode
Windows Multi-clipboard
Windows Clipboard History
Clippy
Chrome Remote Desktop
Mouse Pointer Highlighter
AnyViewer
Pastebot app
Overzealous antivirus (Digital Guardian) as well as viruses that empty the clipboard
Vector Magic