Even editing text in Design View is now difficult in DW CC?

Hi All,
Even editing text in Design View is now difficult in DW CC? I just upgraded.
It seems difficult - or impossible - to select, copy and paste multiple blocks of text from one place to another - unless you work in the Code View.
Text blocks are separate entities, separately edited? I can't even copy and paste an image from one file into another.
Previously, I'd regularly select an image - or a load of text - and replace it with some copied from elsewhere by 'pasting'.
I must be missing something. Perhaps there's another mode of working.
Thanks,
John

You're probably in Live View.
CC2014.1 does some strange things when it comes to Live and Design Views.
1. Design View is gone for Fluid Grid Layouts, so all editing has to be done in Code or Live View. There is a work around to get Design View back for those in Post #6 here: Editing Text and Adding Links Is Crazy in DW CC-2014.1
You can also add your voice to get it back here: Provide "Design View" for Fluid Grid Webpages
2. Design and Live Views are now a dropdown menu. Check the top left of your workspace, you should see Code | Split | Live with a small triangle next to Live. Click it to access Design View in everything but FGL pages

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On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:14:34 +0000 (UTC), "Peter Siebert"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Anyone run into this? It appears to be a bug, possibly
new in DW CS3 (9.0 build
>3481)
> When a <body> tag is put in an editable region, DW
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>Here is a sample template:
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~Malcolm~*...
~*

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> jsaffer1 wrote:
>> I have just started using Dreamweaver CS4. In older
versions of
>> Dreamweaver, I'm used to seeing text in Display view
and being able to
>> edit the text directly in Display view, rather than
having to edit text
>> in Code view. But when I'm trying to edit text in
Display view on a
>> webpage that has text in a scrollable window,
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>> me to scroll down the scroll box, so I can't edit
text that is lower down
>> in the scrollable area. Anybody have an idea on how
I can accomplish
>> this?
>>
>> Thanks very much.
>>
>> Jason
>>

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Hello All:
I apologize that my first post is a question. I have searched
and cannot seem to find an answer to this. I am a new Dreamweaver
user but have been handcoding for ~7 years. I am self taught with
Dreamweaver so I may very well have done something wrong.
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computer. On that other computer (and now on this one), my template
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there to end the editable region.
When I open any of the pages in Firefox/IE5-6/Opera on
various operating systems I have absolutely no problem viewing and
navigating the site, and there are no javascript errors.
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both the working page and the non-working design view. My HTML is
not validatable but that is not of concern at the moment.
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> "Fixed" ... sort of.
>
> First, I apologize that I posted this in the dynamic
HTML section, I
> missed
> the dynamic part for some reason.
>
> It seems that dreamweaver did not like having
<body> be in an editable
> region.
> After removing that, I can now see the design in
dreamweaver.
>
> Eric
>

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