Ability to paste text "content" and not formatting

[John Stanowski]

I'd like to be able to copy text and paste it over other text without pasting the formatting.

E.g. I have 2 point text objects, both have different appearances.

If I highlight the text from the first and paste it over the second, the appearance gets pasted as well.

I'd like to be able to keep the second object's appearance intact.

Hate to bring up Corel DRAW again, but Corel lets you do what I'm asking for.

Seems to me if you want to copy some text and include its appearance then you'd just duplicate the whole object.

But if I use the Text Tool and highlight the text and then copy, it does the same exact thing.

Knowhattamean?

[Ton Frederiks]

I see what you mean, it does not hide selected text, but it hides the text selection.

[Ton Frederiks]

You can vote for it here:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/31966486-hide-text-high...

[needforname]

Thanks Ton. Yeah, I've already upvoted the feature request on every thread. It continues to get ignored. The only suggestion by Adobe is to disable GPU Processing. Obviously not an ideal solution. There are many threads from various websites regarding that feature alone. Not sure how many upvotes a blatantly obvious feature requires. Honestly, not sure why something that obvious should go un-noticed by Adobe for years now anyway. It's as if the developers don't even use the software. If they did, they'd know how annoying some of these multi-year oversights are and just fix them. Not sure why Adobe even got rid of the ability to hide selected text to begin with. Cmd D use to perform that function with highlighted text. I should learn though that complaining does nothing in these forums. And either does upvoting. 

[Monika Gause]

Hiding the text selection is pretty useful when adjusting the details.

As well as hiding the selection in general.

[rcraighead]

I first paste it into the "Attributes Panel" notes field and re-copy. I agree, there should be a simple option to "paste without formatting".

[virodesign]

We're in 2020 and I can't enough surprise for lack of these kinds of basic features nowadays in Illustrator compare with other design software. The subscription prices are not worthy 

[fordl44151010]

How is this still not done????!!!

[Monika Gause]

Did you or anyone post it in Uservoice?

Because that's where the developers read and discuss.

[Ton Frederiks]

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-feature-requests/suggestions/34157101-pa...

[Dmytro Klishchyk]

[Kurt Gold]

Dmytro,

your screenshot shows a Photoshop menu.