I think it is odd to report a bug as a question, but Lucid does not have a way to report bugs any more, so this is the best I can do. This is not a question. This is a bug report.

When pasting text into a shape whose size has been set, the shape changes size, shape, and location. Steps to reproduce:

• Add a standard shape to a drawing, e.g., a rectangle from Standard Shapes or a Process rectangle from the Flowchart shape set.
• Carefully and painfully adjust the size of the rectangle so it is just how you want it.
• Copy some text from another shape, for example a shape that is exactly the same size as the shape you just made.
• Paste this text into the new shape.

Expected result:

• The text is pasted into the shape. The shape retains its carefully and painfully adjusted size.
• As a customer, I expect shapes to retain the size I carefully and painfully set them to. If I paste text that overflows the existing shape size, the text should exceed the boundaries of the shape or the shape should clip the text. Either way, I will take additional steps to correct this, by further adjusting the text in the shape, by adjusting the text size, padding, etc, or by editing the text itself. In no case should pasting text cause me to lose work I have already put into the diagram adjusting a shape’s size and location. Changing a shape’s size, shape, and location when pasting text is like changing a shape’s fill color when I paste text. If I have already set the fill color I want, then this causes me severe frustration because I have to repeat work I already put into the drawing.
• In the unlikely event that some customers want shapes that unexpectedly change their size, shape, and location, then make special shapes for that, that have this behavior. But do not make the standard shapes work this way. Shapes that randomly resize themselves should not be able to be resized by a user. Shapes that a user can re-size should not change their size unexpectedly.

Actual result:

• The shape resizes itself to fit the text, changes shape, and changes location on the drawing.

Work around:

• Waste precious hours of your life carefully and painfully readjusting the size and position of the shape again.

Potential complication: the text I pasted when experiencing this bug had two font configurations: a first line that was slightly larger typeface, and additional lines that were a smaller typeface.