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the outward spiral
Inspiring
July 10, 2018
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Pasting titles copied from Microsoft Word 2016

  • July 10, 2018
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A weird thing is happening when I paste text copied from Word into an existing title in Premiere.

The copied text will completely replace all of the existing title, even if I only have some of that title selected, or I have the cursor inserted in the title where I want the new text pasted.

But if I paste the text in a sticky note or notepad first, then copy it again from there, then that clipboard contents pastes as expected into the title without affecting any existing text.

Can anyone else reproduce this behaviour?

Can anyone guess what is going on here?

Cheers.

Gaz

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    Steve Wildside
    Known Participant
    October 16, 2021

    Sorry, I know this is an old thread. However, if you're copying text from a Word Doc within tables then you are copying the tables as well, even though they don't highlight. So that's likely to cause a conflict with the Premiere Pro Titler.

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    rodneyb56060189
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    July 10, 2018

    Notepad is a plain text program with fundamentally no formatting. Word is formatted in the sense that it allows you to do lots of things to format the text, use different paragraph styles, bullet lists, all sorts of stuff.

    The Word stuff you use to paste into titles is not going to ever work nicely. Best to use Notepad ( plain text ).

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    the outward spiralAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 10, 2018

    Thanks Rodney.

    That doesn't really answer my questions.

    If pasting the text from Word changed the format (font, size etc.) of an existing Premiere title, it wouldn't surprise me. But it doesn't - the Prem title retains its existing formatting.

    So I don't get how you could, for example, insert your cursor at the end of an existing title and paste text from Word, expecting it to be appended to the end of that title, only to find that it completely replaces it instead.

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    the outward spiralAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 10, 2018

    No, no... I'm only selecting words from the table - no cells, no carriage returns, tabs or anything else, just the words.


    But that has brought up an interesting point. I just tested with a Word doc that's not in table form, and that works as expected, so it is tables that are the problem.

    I might revise this post to reflect that.

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