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JBrown321
JBrown321
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February 15, 2022
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selecting text with cursor omits last character

  • February 15, 2022
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When using my cursor to highlight text, the last character will always be omitted from the selection. See my example video. AE version 22.2.0, Windows 10, latest Nvidia Driver 

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    解決に役立った回答 Douglas_Waterfall

    This discussion is a duplicate of cant-select-last-letter-in-a-line-of-text-after-effects which has more current status.

     

    Summary: a fix is available in the current Beta build for 23.0, it will be available in the next full release when it becomes available. See above link for more information if you desire it.

     

    It has been a frustrating problem for many customers, software engineers as well. I believe it to be resolved and we have had no negative reports from internal or beta users, though that is not always definitive, so expecting good reports when it  goes live in the next full release.

     

    Douglas Waterfall

    After Effects Engineering

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    Adobe Employee
    Douglas_Waterfall解決！
    Adobe Employee
    October 5, 2022

    This discussion is a duplicate of cant-select-last-letter-in-a-line-of-text-after-effects which has more current status.

     

    Summary: a fix is available in the current Beta build for 23.0, it will be available in the next full release when it becomes available. See above link for more information if you desire it.

     

    It has been a frustrating problem for many customers, software engineers as well. I believe it to be resolved and we have had no negative reports from internal or beta users, though that is not always definitive, so expecting good reports when it  goes live in the next full release.

     

    Douglas Waterfall

    After Effects Engineering

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      michaelc29789176
      Participating Frequently
      October 5, 2022
      Thanks for sharing that with me Douglas. Good to hear.
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      michaelc29789176
      Participating Frequently
      October 4, 2022

      If someone from Adobe could even acknowledge that this is an issue and that they're working on it that would be great. 

      This is making my job a lot worse than it needs to be.

      Warren Heaton
      Community Expert
      Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      October 5, 2022

      @michaelc29789176 

       

      Adobe employees have been responding to this thread on a regular basis.

       

       

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      michaelc29789176
      Participating Frequently
      October 5, 2022
      I must’ve missed that. Has anyone said anything useful?
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      JLaRoche
      Participant
      October 4, 2022

      Are you ever going to fix this problem. You act like you don't even know about it.  It's been well over 30 days since the last update that did not fix it!!  Do I sound frustrated?

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        Carti_P
        Participant
        September 30, 2022

        +1! Also unable to click beyond last character, highlight last character, or use the shift+ right arrow trick as described. Makes working with text super frustrating. PLEASE FIX

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          michaelc29789176
          Participating Frequently
          September 21, 2022

          I'll add that whenever I start typing, the first character is always omitted. 

          This is in addition to not being able to place the cursor after the last character to continue typing, nor dragging to hilight all of the text without omitting the last character.

           

          Major issue.

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          chrishoulahan
          Participant
          September 21, 2022
          This happens for me also.... major pain
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          michaelc29789176
          Participating Frequently
          September 21, 2022

          Working with text is an integral part of AE. This is unacceptable.

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          Thierry5C74
          Participant
          September 14, 2022

          Struggled all year with that bug. We do a lot of text animation at the TV Station and it make everything difficult. It's a big bug. Not a small one.

            Warren Heaton
            Community Expert
            Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            September 14, 2022

            @Thierry5C74 

            Until this gets resolved, double-click the Text Layer in the Composition panel or in the Timeline panel to quickly select the entire line.

            JBrown321
            JBrown321作成者
            Known Participant
            September 14, 2022

            When you need to select just the last character, this double click does not help in any way. Adobe needs to get their priorities in order before more of us jump ship. 

            debaugh
            debaugh
            Participant
            September 13, 2022

            Problem is still present on AE Version 22.6.0 (Build 64) for Windows. Add a text layer and then manually select the text using the mouse or trackpad and the last character is not included in the selection, making edits and property changes unnecessarily difficult for users that focus on mouse/trackpad usage. Doesn't make a difference when selecting from last character to first or first character to last, regardless of font family. The "Select All" menu command and keys (Ctrl+A) do work correctly. This needs to get fixed.

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            default6umg0hlyy4uu
            Known Participant
            September 13, 2022

            version after version, update after update, this issue remain...! It is really a shame...
            Adobe takes advantage of its dominant position in the market in a disgusting way by letting its apps accumulate bugs. Updates only seem to be cosmetic interventions now. Ashamed...

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            Like_Minded
            Participating Frequently
            April 29, 2022

            Glad to see that this has been ackonowledged as it's driving me insane!

              Warren Heaton
              Community Expert
              Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
              Community Expert
              February 15, 2022

              This could win the "unexpecte behavior of the day".

               

              What happens if you double-click to select the text?

              JBrown321
              JBrown321作成者
              Known Participant
              February 15, 2022

              Hello, yes haha. Double click does the trick fine and grabs the whole line, but the manual approach isn't working 

              Warren Heaton
              Community Expert
              Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
              Community Expert
              February 17, 2022

              Also, seems to happen no matter the font used. There are rare times it works fine, but mostly, it will garvitate to behaving this way as seen in my example video.


              For this kind of issue, resetting the preferences is probably a good place to start.

               

              You can sync and then clear your settings.

              https://helpx.adobe.com/in/after-effects/using/sync-settings.html

               

              Or manually move the preferences file (Preferences > General > Reveal Preferences).

               

              If that clears the unexpected text selection issue, you can create new settings and do a new sync or you can restore the synced settings (but a restore may bring the issue back).

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