Pasted text from Illustrator to TextEdit turns into a graphic

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From: Cheryl_G
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:01

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I know there has to be a simple explanation for this:

I have some notes I typed in Illustrator using the regular type tool. The text is in the default font and fully editable. When I copy that text and paste it into a TextEdit RTF document, it behaves like an inline graphic. The text is no longer editable.

In order to paste the text as text, I have to convert the TextEdit file to plain text. I can then convert it back to rich text and edit the document, but it doesn't seem to me that I should have to go through so many steps.
What gives?

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