Anyone else experience this issue?
When copying text from an existing text box into a new text box, if some of the text is underlined in the existing box, when pasting into the nex box all text is converted to underlined text.
Would love to know if there is a fix or work around for this issue.
Thx
Yes albeit not specifically with an underline. If it’s only one text box affected, the simple solution is to remove the underline format from the affected text. If it’s multiple text boxes …
Good luck. Hope that helps!
Hmm… works for me on Sequoia 15.5 and LayOut. I tried both text and autotext, bounded and unbounded. Oh, and regular and experimental graphics engine (from Preferences->Performance).
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Looks like it actually performs the same way if I copy/paste text within the same text box as well. The only area this is a pain is when I create my general notes with lots of text/underlined headings. Its just a silly problem that has always existed within layout, would be nice to see it fixed.
This doesn’t work with this scenario. If the entire box was underlined and I wanted it to not be then it would work. But what I am after is maintaining partial underlines under headings etc.
That’s so weird. If you’d like to share the file, that could help with a possible fix.
I just created a brand new file with those two text boxes.
If you create a text box, underline one line, then highlight all text and copy/paste, does yours do it correctly or does it convert everything to underlined?
Can you please perform a test for me:
Thanks,
Adam
Indeed the copied text is assuming the characteristics of the first copied character. Tried underlined, coloured, different font, didn’t matter what it was it copied the formatting everytime and transferred to the entire copied text.
Sorry for the slow reply. I tried it a few different times with expected results before replicating what you are experiencing. Yes, when double click the text box, select all of the text within a text box, and then copy/paste it does underline everything (my first line was also in bold and ditto on that).
What has worked for me (and my usual way of duplicating columns with formatting) is to select the text box and either Option-Move to duplicate the text box or Copy/Paste. Both create a duplicate of the text box without the janky formatting. I use this method for columns of text such as specifications because I have them formatted with tabs/ indents and they are numbered.
I’m on a Mac as well, with LayOut 2025 on MacOS Sequoia but I created earlier LayOut templates with columns of text with MacOS Sonoma in LayOut 2023. I haven’t had any formatting issues with 2023, 2024 or 2025 that weren’t eventually resolved. Are you able to get the results you want with Copy/Paste or Option-Move?
This problem is usually only and issue for me when I am editting my general notes on plans. Often this involves copy paste of a lot of text back and forth between text boxes which is when I experience this problem. I might just get sneaky and not underline the first character…probably no one will notice when they are reading the notes lol
First off, good on you for updating your general notes per project. Can’t tell you how many sets of drawings I’ve seen in my career where the specs reference things that are obsolete or from the 90’s 
When you copy your text blocks, if you omit the part with the formatting (which I assume is a heading), then it should not format the rest of the text (at least it didn’t for me). However, if you’re needing to copy the heading as well, perhaps copy without the formatted text and then Copy Style/Paste Style on the headings. I used this method when originally setting up our specs and it was easier to update the headings than it was to format entire blocks of text.
I can’t replicate this in Pages or TextEdit so I don’t think it’s an OS issue. Hopefully it gets picked up on a future update. Thanks for pointing it out.
