How do you copy and paste text in graphic templates?

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April 26, 2020
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Maybe I'm going about it the wrong way but how do you copy and paste text in Graphic templates? Is this a bug or a feature? I've had to manually enter information.

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R Neil Haugen

Legend

You can of course copy/duplicate a graphics "clip" on the sequence and paste that elsewhere in the sequence. As noted by Phillip, if you've made the graphics through the EGP but not saved as a mogrt, you can simply copy any line or group from the EGP's edit panel and paste onto another graphics clip Edit panel.

So ... which you're working with, and what you're doing to it ... matter for helping you.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Phillip Harvey

Community Expert

I'm not able to see the pic you tried to link.

It may depend on how the template is set up that you're trying to use. If it's simply presets created with Essential Graphics, then you can copy and paste the text layer (inside the Essential Graphics panel). If it's a .mogrt file, then you can only edit the parameters that have been assigned to the template. You can copy and paste the whole clip, but not individual parts of that clip.

RollmodlAuthor

Participant

I've tried pasting it in the timeline which doesn't work.

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Scott Brock

Participating Frequently

Good to know that it's solved. What you want is to copy a text from an external text editor and paste it replacing an existing text in PPro. You can do that only in the Text panel, or in the Program monitor, in both you can highlight the text and do the paste.

The copy paste in the GEP and ECP are used to DUPLICATE an existing text, which clearly you don't want to do in your case. The paste command was disabled in your screenshots, because you have to copy the existing text layer and then the Paste will be enabled, where paste will create a duplicate of your selected text. I hope things are clear now...

Hi Ali -

Things are - well, almost clear now. How do you copy the existing text layer from GEP or ECP? That was not clear to me from Adobe documentation nor threads. But working with external text (from TextEdit, specifically) and pasting it into the Graphics tab in the manner I described is completely consistent, so unless copying the text layer yields both consistent and efficient results, I am more than happy with the discovery I stumbled on.

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