text selection issue with threaded text frames
Trying to select text in the second column of a threaded text frame is impossible. The selection always jumps to select the text in the previous text frame. In the video example I uploaded - I'm simply trying to select just the top paragraph in the middle column - but it keeps highlighting the text in the linked text frame on the left column. I can never just select the top 3 lines in the middle column.
Orbit Design
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And the thing is it worked just fine in older version of Ai, like in version 10, shown in the GIF attached
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Kris Hunt
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If text spans two (or more) text boxes, it is very difficult to select text. As long as a cursor is over a line of text, the selected text works as expected. But when the cursor is positioned between two lines of text, the selection includes chunks of text from both text boxes. It's particularly annoying when you're trying to select text beginning at the end of a paragraph. If you don't position the cursor JUST RIGHT, you'll select everything but your intended selection. Here's a video:
https://youtu.be/FR5YFNfg82k -
I confirm that.
It is possible to select the paragraph only, but it requires unhealthy amount of fiddling :(
