Why can't I paste coppied text as my file name from Illustrator?

[Stilly000]

I’ve seen this question asked many times on different forums, and it gets misinterpreted all the time.  So I will try to be as specific as I can. Question: How can I copy a portion of text from a random source like (a word doc, an Illustrator file, Excel, or even the web) and paste it into the dialogue box as the file name when I save a file? “Command C” and “Command V” does not seem to work.   I have included a graphic to illustrate my point.

[rickwtexas]

This is a recent upgrade bug, and worked ok from CS15 back to 88. Work-around:

FILE> FILE INFO> (paste text anywhere in this menu), COPY TEXT and then can you paste into file name.

Drives me nuts, I have to do this 10+ times a day. One of the cardinal truths that we will all have to live with... there is no-one working at Adobe that has ever worked like most of have, i.e. 12+ hours a day and always in a hurry trying to catch deadlines. Their interest in making work go faster is about the same as my interest in women's collegiate rowing in the midwest... zilch.

[lucief]

Yeah, this is an annoying evolution of the app, in my case Photoshop CC. I like to paste the actual filename I intend to export with as the name of the layers in my master template psd files...

What you can do is get your filename in the clipboard and when you get to the save as dialogue right-click on the file name and select paste from there... that will paste your filename.