         // is a selection.    
         if (getFocus() == this)
         {
-            content = value;
-            return;
+           content = importToFlow(value);
+           return;
         }
                     
         // Setting 'text' temporarily causes 'content' to become null.

     *  @private
     *  This will throw on import error.
     */
    private function importToFlow(source:Object, format:String, 
                                  config:Configuration = null):TextFlow
    {
        var importer:ITextImporter = TextFilter.getImporter(format);
        
        // Throw import errors rather than return a null textFlow.
        // Alternatively, the error strings are in the Vector, importer.errors.

        	selectionFormatsChanged = false;
        }

        // If the text has line-ending sequences such as LF or CR+LF, 
        // a TextFlow with multiple paragraph is produced as the 'content'. 
        // Otherwise all of the multi-line text got stuffed into one span in 
        // one paragraph. But when you have a large paragraph 
        // (i.e., a large TextBlock), FTE is slow to break the first 
        // TextLine because it analyzes all of the text first.       
        if (textChanged && textHasLineBreaks())
            content = importToFlow(_text);
                          
        if (textChanged)
        {
        	if (debug)
