Problem with Marquee Text selection

This issue is driving me CRAZY.   I work with text all day. I almost want to go back to cc2017.   I even seen Twitch (Creative) streams where the artist is accidently making new text boxes consistantly.   I point it out but nobody seems to care.  

Ah thanks for the context. To that end, the Designers can probably come up with a rule set where it makes a new box when clicking out ( on click release) but not when marquee selecting existing text after releasing.

Although outside of that Id still make the feature request to revert to old functionality as a Preference checkbox, because clicking out to exit and select another object was very handy, and clicking out to make a new text element seems only contextually useful to a limited set of tasks such asmaking a bunch of quick labels or something at once. Not as good for focusing on one object or switching between text objects and other types of objects.

i Already made a bug ticket, do I need to re-do it?

Thank you all for the responses. Reminder that we are not there yet and have in fact just clarified the issue a bit further.

Regarding Monika Gause's response, it is true that you can't marquee select text in an unselected text element.

However, the issue here as I just verified on 2017 is that when the text element is already in scope, you COULD marquee select from out of its bounds in 2017 and before. In 2018, you cannot and it will create a new text element.

The issue may be more specific, its hard to know without 2 computers side by side. But as of now that seems pretty specific to be added to a buglist.

Hi Anthony,

I do not remember ever being able to click and drag outside a text container without that creating a  new text container.

But try turning this off just incase that helps.

I do prefer the  illustrator before shapes as I cannot make type changes from farther away unless i Zoom in because nearby elements keep getting their corners rounded. All I want to do is update our job slug date and version number, on all the files I have open, but now  take sponger as I have to zoom in for each type edit.

anthonyf17501227  wrote When I am editing text and I have a text box in scope, I am accustomed to being able to easily marquee select text for highlighting / editing (in 2017 and prior). Now, with 2018, it often creates a NEW text element when I try to marquee select text I am editing.

Which tool are you using when you are marquee selecting the text and are you using any modifier keys?

Thanks Monika. I would need to be able to run CC2017 to confirm EXACTLY what the difference is. I'm flying a little blind there. Certainly I know that I use Illustrator weekly for years and as soon as 2018 hit I am running into this problem constantly, and it is a new problem for me. I will check some of my other computers when I get home if they let me run without updating.

Thank you Krishunt. How do I file a bug report? A quick search on the topic didn't yield me much except for moderators sometimes saying they will file it by commenting here.

All you can do is file a bug report.

When you want to edit text with the text tool, you can't start the click and drag outside the text box.