Convert graphic back to text

Hi @Stephen229259846qpi:

Would you mind sharing a copy of your Clipboard Handling preferences? If you have enabled Prefer PDF when Pasting, then pasting Word text will paste as a graphic. If you disable it, the text will paste as live, editable text. 

~Barb

Hi @Stephen229259846qpi ,

my suggestion would be to open the InDesign document with exactly the same version of InDesogn you saved it the last time. If a beta version, then this beta version of InDesign. Then save the document as IDML file. Open the IDML file with the release version of InDesign.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

How do I convert it back to a text box so I can add/edit text?

Hi @Stephen229259846qpi , With an empty frame selected you can choose Object>Content>Text. That will convert the selected frame to a text frame, but will not recover any text that existed before the conversion to a graphic frame. You can also right-click an empty frame and change its content contextually—maybe that’s how the conversion to a graphic frame happened?

At what point was it converted? InDesign does not normally convert text to graphics as any kind of internal operation, but it can happen on export to various formats. What format are you working with?

And the short answer, barring a slim few possibilities, is no. If you don't have the text somewhere, it's lost to that visual version and will have to be re-entered or possibly OCR'ed.