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Unable to highlight or select text (New Designer)

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Posted on by lco7331

Is there a recent update to the New Designer? 

 

Previously I can highlight or select text in any of the action fields. Now I can't select anything. I can't even select the text I typed out in the search bar.

 

The old design I can select text, so it is not any issue from my own mouse or computer.

 

Anyone having similar problem?

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  • HannahMS Profile Picture
    HannahMS 12 on at

    I've also been having the same issue, so glad to discover that I'm not the only one, but hopefully we can get a fix soon. 

  • David_MA Profile Picture
    David_MA 15,615 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Yes, there are many issues with the new designer. I do not use it at all. If Microsoft forces this on everyone eventually, they need to flush out all the bugs. The new designer seems like a step backward rather than forward. Every time I give it another try, something doesn't work.

     

    I am not sure where you were trying to select text, but this week I tried it (the new designer) again to copy the URL of a SharePoint list from a trigger condition so I could open the site. No go in the new designer. But it works without any problem in the classic designer.

     

    As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, "the little things are infinitely the most important."

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