Title: Cannot edit text
Last modified: December 12, 2018

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# Cannot edit text

 *  [minkisan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minkisan/)
 * (@minkisan)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-text-help/)
 * Hello,
    I upgraded my site to 5.0 and I really don’t like the new changes. I 
   know I could use a plugin to use the old editor but as that will not be supported
   after a time I figured I would use the new interface and get used to it now.
 * The problem is that it has slowed my work down to a crawl and now I cannot edit
   text in the boxes.
 * I write in Scrivener or Word and then copy paste my review into the editor. I
   then add images and make corrections. I will get used to the editor but it doesn’t
   work.
 * If I spot a mistake or something I would like to change based on an image position
   in the page I click the error and change it, in the new editor I cannot click
   the error, when I do I manage to click the error and the moment I type something
   else the cursor moves to the top of the box and any changes are added there. 
   If I want to change something or add something to the page I get the same problem.
 * Its extremely frustrating and the only solution at the moment is to make changes
   in the word or scrivener document and re-add the entire page. It’s slower and
   if I want to make a change based on the positioning of an image its impossible.
 * Please help as soon as possible I cannot continue to use WordPress if this keeps
   happening and if I have to go back to Dreamweaver it will mean I have to work
   alone on the site.
 * Thank you for looking.
    MinkiSan

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 *  Thread Starter [minkisan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minkisan/)
 * (@minkisan)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-text-help/#post-10977702)
 * I thought I should add to this as I am finding more and more problems as I progress.
   I just tried to add a heading box, I wanted to type In Summary, what I got was
   yrammuSnI. Backwards and with no spaces. I cannot add spaces and when I tried
   to add I had to click many times before the space was added.
 *  Moderator [tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobifjellner/)
 * (@tobifjellner)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-text-help/#post-10978741)
 * Hi [@minkisan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minkisan/)
 * The WordPress developers have been working on the new editor for quite a while.
   And they felt that it now is good enough to step up and start using the block
   editor as the default one.
    However, a new editor means that the interfaces for
   anything that extends the editor will change, and many themes and plugins still
   need to catch up.
 * Also, some deeper functionality, like the ability to just throw in formatted 
   text from various sources, isn’t yet fully up to par, especially for more special
   cases. (I’ve seen somewhere that pasting from Word on a Mac wasn’t fully solved
   when 5.0 went out.)
 * A first iteration to fix things (WordPress 5.0.1) is expected to happen already
   now in December.
 * If you want, you can try to see if your problems already have been reported in:
   
   [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/) and/or [https://github.com/wordpress/gutenberg/issues](https://github.com/wordpress/gutenberg/issues)
 *  Thread Starter [minkisan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minkisan/)
 * (@minkisan)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-text-help/#post-11144360)
 * I have been using the new editor since I posted and I have to say, I actually
   like it now. I am old and don’t like change but given a choice, I would use the
   new editor. It is not as intuitive as the old editor but I really like it.
 *  Moderator [tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobifjellner/)
 * (@tobifjellner)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-text-help/#post-11144418)
 * One thing that was solved relatively quickly after 5.0 was released was that 
   the editor would rush to save your changes after virtually every letter you wrote,
   and accidentally moving the cursor to the start of the field every time, in effect
   making the use type backwards.
 * Thanks for following up!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobifjellner/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-text-help/#post-11144418)
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