Copy paste text but lost all transformations

[asvq3eavssa]

For some reason the copy paste suddently stopped working. I am copying one object which is a Text transformed with functions and it shows like this in Appearance. 

However the duplicated one lost all transformation and it's just like vectorized object and I can't edit it.

Any idea?

[tromboniator]

Well, you haven't shown your Layers panel, but my guess would be that somewhere in the process the type object was expanded, either by your action or some unknown event: the first Appearance panel shows Type, the second shows Group, which you would get if the type is expanded. If it's through your action, the remedy is "Don't"; if it's something else I think we need more information to dig deeper.

Peter

[asvq3eavssa]

I don't know how "Expand" operation was triggered. All what I did is copy paste. Either through shortcuts or from the menu.

[tromboniator]

Does it happen in other documents? Does it happen if you save/close/re-open the document? Close/re-open Illustrator? Shut down/reboot your computer?