text has changed into curves, why?

[hhauten]

I had a correct tekst frame. All of a sudden, when I select the frame, in the layers panel the focus goes to a black square (Group). Under this I see a host of (curve) objects. When I try to edit the tekst in  my frame, this seems impossible. Instead I seem to select a curve. I had redo my whole document from scratch. Not nice,

[Alfred]

It sounds as though you may have tried to terminate the text entry by pressing Cmd+Return (Mac) or Ctrl+Enter (Windows), which is the default shortcut for ‘Convert to Curves ’.

[hhauten]

Can it be uncurved?

[hhauten]

I tested tis action, you are right. Shift and Ctl are close together! Also found it cannot be uncurved! I wish I had no such shortcut!

[walt.farrell]

13 minutes ago, hhauten said:

Also found it cannot be uncurved!

Backing up through the History panel you should be able to get to a point before you converted it to curves, I think. Of course, you'll lose anything done after that.

[Alfred]

31 minutes ago, hhauten said:

I wish I had no such shortcut!

You can customize most of the shortcuts via ‘Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts’.

[Jowday]

That is why we need a story editor - this shortcut can be triggered by accident while editing text in a text frame. Fx an article. The entire paragraph will be converted to curves. At least. I assume no one will ever expect that to happen while the cursor blinks in a paragraph - or need the feature in text edit mode.

Convert to curves just shouldn't be available while typing editorial text.

[Fixx]

Users should just remove CMD-Return from shortcuts. It is not really needed as shortcut.

[Jowday]

5 hours ago, Fixx said:

Users should just remove CMD-Return from shortcuts. It is not really needed as shortcut.

It is not a RTFM issue for the many users. The feature is not needed there.

[fde101]

I agree that seems like a bad shortcut to have there.  If they are going to give it one it should be something strange like command+option+shift+F6 or whatever.