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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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Warren Heaton10841144

Community Expert

Until this is resolved, triple-click to select the entire line. If you need to include the line brake at the tail of the line for text formatting purposes, quadruple-click.

Probably worth mentioning that double-click selects a single work and quintuple-click selects all lines of multi-line text.

Another option is to use shift right arrow to complete a left to right click and drag type selection or shift left arrow to complete a right to left click and drag type selection.

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richardg30434111

Known Participant

jesus....is after effects dying? every month there is a new small glitch and a fix never comes...i have like 20 big glitches i have to watch out for now and no updates? no fixes? no support!

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Warren Heaton10841144

Community Expert

Actually, I've never noticed this issue as I've always used click, double-click, triple-click, quadruple-click, and quintuple-click with text as this works the same across After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

AE isn't dying. Have you had a chance to check out Content-aware Video Fill or Multi-Frame Rendering (my renders on my 2017 iMac Pro finish in half the time)? Or have you noticed that we can make edits while a Preview is running, including moving the Current Time Indicator to make numeric adjustments?

20 glitches? Care to list them?

JBrown321

Known Participant

Adobe! This was fixed in the last version (22.4) and now with this brand new v22.5 it's back, ahhhh! Now I'm gonna have to roll back to the prevous version. *Please note this bug and fix asap*

Punker

Inspiring

Same here

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EltonJohnisPlumpandDreamy

Inspiring

I came here because of this exact issue. Sooooo ridiculous, Adobe. Get your (profanity removed by moderator) together

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Douglas_Waterfall

Adobe Employee

Thank you for reporting this, and for those of you on the beta program, there is a fix for this now available in Beta 22.4 build 42.

The problem was not specific to the first or last character of the story - those were just the most obvious cases - as it would "stick" in other places as well but it was possible to wiggle out of those and get it unstuck.

I tested the fix with all the cases I could think of but of course that might not cover your own experience - I would appreciate knowing of any continuing failures.

Douglas Waterfall
After Effects Engineering

Josh mehler

Participating Frequently

Where is this Beta. It's September, and I've updated to the latest version. Still happening. PLEASE FIX.

Rameez_Khan

Legend

Hi @Josh mehler

You can download the Beta from the Creative Cloud desktop app.

Thanks,

Rameez

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dwitm

Participant

Has anyone else having the issue when highlighting text in After Effect 2022, it's really difficult to select a full line of text? It seems to get stuck on the first / last letter unless I'm extremely agressive / fast with the mouse. Most of the time I end up resorting to shift+arrow the final letter which can be annoying when working on a text heavy piece.

It's not a major issue but it would be good to get the issue known to Adobe for a fix and gauge how many other people are running into this. I'm certain this wasn't a problem in previous itterations.

Cheers.

Rameez_Khan

Legend

Hi @dwitm,

Thanks for posting to the community.

The After Effects team is aware of this bug and is working on a fix. So far, I have only seen a few reports for this bug.

Best,

Rameez

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dwitm

Participant

Thanks for the quick reply, good to know it's being worked on.

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defaultq4sh6gisdyl8Author

Participating Frequently

I just tried deleting my preference to no avail.

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defaultq4sh6gisdyl8Author

Participating Frequently

So I have also tried swapping my keyboard. Updating my bios uninstalling and re-installing AE, uninstalling all of my plugins and its still an issue in AE. In premier and photoshop selecting and highlight text is fine.

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tsanph

Participant

Just in case you guys didn't know, you can click in the text line where you want to start, and hold the shift key + left or right arrow to select from that point forward or backward. It will highlight the individual letters from that point on, so you can make changes. It's a workaround, but it's still better than fighting with it.

Thanks mate- life saver!

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