Adobe Photoshop 22: text carriage return is not working

[Pierre-Eliott - Dalet]

Hi,
I'm using Adobe Photoshop 22.4.2 on Windows 10 64bits. I noticed an issue with the text layer. When editing the text and pressing Enter (text one or number one), Photoshop is validating the text edit on my layer and not performing a carriage return as it should do by default. I tried several shortcuts combinaisons, without being able to perform a text carriage return in the app. I tested on Adobe Illustrator and it's working correctly as expected.

I uninstalled, downgraded to v22.0, reset the user preferences, all without success. I tested on my mac, same version and it's working fine. The issue is only with the version I have on Windows.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Pierre

[jane-e]

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@Pierre-Eliott - Dalet wrote:

not performing a carriage return

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Hi

The first thing to ask is which Enter you are using — the one on the alphabetic keypad or the one on the numeric keypad, as they are not the same. Don't use the Numeric keypad Enter.

On your Mac you will use Return and not numeric keypad Enter.

~ Jane

[Pierre-Eliott - Dalet]

Hi Jane,

Thanks for the tip. However, Photoshop is not behaving as default by conducting a carriage return in the text paragraph block when using the alphabetic keyboad on my Windows version. As I said, on the same laptop, it's working correctly with Adobe Illustrator.

I also checked that no other third party software might "geopardize" the shortcuts.

Pierre

[jane-e]

Hi @Pierre-Eliott - Dalet 

Here are a couple of things to try:

• Can you look in Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts to see if the shortcut for a Enter got reassigned to accept the Text edit instead of start a new paragraph?
• Are the Keyboard Shortcuts using the Default set or does it say (modified)?
• As a temporary workaround and for testing purposes, does Shift+Enter (line break) work?
• Try resetting the Type tool: right-click the Type tool in the options bar (not Tools panel) and Reset.

Also, it's hard to see: are you clicking to create Point text or dragging first to create Area text? Try both to see if Enter works with either.

As a last resort, when PS acts flaky, and this qualifies, then you need to reset Preferences after backing up customization: 

Prefs > General > Reset Preferences on Quit.

~ Jane

[Pierre-Eliott - Dalet]

Hi @jane-e 

I tried all the above, without success, including reseting the preferences. I still face the issue.

Pressing the main Enter key or number enter key results in stopping editing the text.

Pressing shift + enter trigger the 3d layer tool on the selected text.

I doubled checked and I don't have any 3rd party tool running in parallel, impacting the keyboard behaviour. I can of course perform correctly a carriage return on any other application. It's also working on Adobe Illustrator. Only Adobe Photoshop is impacted.

Thanks for your help.

Pierre

[Brandon22988387bzpk]

I am having this same issue in Photoshop using Windows. For some reason now when I am in text and press return to start a new line, it simply exits the text box.  I have tried all of these suggestions and cannot figure it out. Please help.

[jane-e]

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@Brandon22988387bzpk wrote:

I am having this same issue in Photoshop using Windows. For some reason now when I am in text and press return to start a new line, it simply exits the text box.  I have tried all of these suggestions and cannot figure it out. Please help.

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Several questions were asked in this thread. Can you please address each of them so we can better assist?

Jane

[Brandon22988387bzpk]

This is a new issue for me. When I type in a text box and hit "enter" to move down to another line, it simply exits the text box. I cannot make a paragraph, only a single line of text. I tried hitting shift-enter, restoring tool, making sure it is still on default settings, etc. Not sure why all of a sudden the enter button takes me out of text.

[jane-e]

@Brandon22988387bzpk wrote:

"I have tried all of these suggestions and cannot figure it out"

You said you tried everything in this thread but you haven't shared your results. Here are the things you haven't told us yet:

• Which Enter are you using? (Windows does not have a "Return" key.)
• Did you look in Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts to see if the shortcut for a Enter got reassigned to accept the Text edit instead of start a new paragraph? What does it say?
• Are the Keyboard Shortcuts using the Default set or does it say (modified)?
• What actually happens when you press Shift+Enter (line break) ?
• Are you clicking to create Point text or dragging first to create Area text? Try both to see if Enter works with either.
• Did you reset Preferences after backing up customization? 

  Prefs > General > Reset Preferences on Quit.

Jane

[Brandon22988387bzpk]

1. I have a Gateway laptop. I am using the only button that says "Enter" on it. The button I have always used to create a new line.

2. This one I do not understand. I cannot find a shortcut for "Enter". Where is that located? Bottom says to click "New Set" button, but I do not see such that button either.

3. It says "Photoshop Defaults"

4. When I hit Shift+Enter it does an "extrusion from text layer" and makes the text line a 3 dimensional font.

5. If I do an area, it will do multiple lines, but hitting the enter button still does not work. Again, it has always worked. It does not now and I have not made any changes.

6. I reset preferences. Lost all of my preferences, but still does not work.

[Laura30631970t9y9]

try Function and Enter.

[柏98A2]

Can you look in Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts to see if the shortcut for a Enter got reassigned to accept the Text edit instead of start a new paragraph?

How to check that????

[catkarina]

Funny story I had a similar issue but it was because I put a space after the last word and until I removed the space and pressed enter it would not let me go to the next line.

[quentinfox]

That fixed it for me. A weird bug to be sure.

[Trevor.Dennis]

I had to replace my keyboard. 😞

[Jason Mojica]

I reset my preferences and the same happened to me. Turned out it was the leading. Set it to auto (or something other than .01) and you're good. 

[jane-e]

Turned out it was the leading.

By @Jason Mojica

Typical leading, as defined by Guttenberg, is type size plus 2. For example, 10 pt of type has 12 pt of leading (10/12), and 11 pt type has 13 pt of leading (11/13). Auto leading is defined in preferences as 120% of the point size. 

Jane