1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx
index 624721d7c..e62a639c8 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FormattedTextB
         return '';
     };
     dispatchTransaction = (tx: Transaction) => {
-        if (this._editorView) {
+        if (this._editorView && !this._editorView.isDestroyed) {
             const state = this._editorView.state.apply(tx);
             this._editorView.updateState(state);
             this.tryUpdateDoc(false);
@@ -353,6 +353,7 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FormattedTextB
 
                 let unchanged = true;
                 const textChange = newText !== prevData?.Text; // the Text string can change even if the RichText doesn't because dashFieldViews may return new strings as the data they reference changes
+                const rtField = (layoutData !== prevData ? layoutData : undefined) ?? protoData;
                 if (this._applyingChange !== this.fieldKey && (force || textChange || removeSelection(newJson) !== removeSelection(prevData?.Data))) {
                     this._applyingChange = this.fieldKey;
                     textChange && (dataDoc[this.fieldKey + '_modificationDate'] = new DateField(new Date(Date.now())));
@@ -366,10 +367,10 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FormattedTextB
                             this._applyingChange = ''; // turning this off here allows a Doc to retrieve data from template if noTemplate below is changed to false
                             unchanged = false;
                         }
-                    } else {
+                    } else if (rtField) {
                         // if we've deleted all the text in a note driven by a template, then restore the template data
                         dataDoc[this.fieldKey] = undefined;
-                        this._editorView.updateState(EditorState.fromJSON(this.config, JSON.parse(((layoutData !== prevData ? layoutData : undefined) ?? protoData)?.Data)));
+                        this._editorView.updateState(EditorState.fromJSON(this.config, JSON.parse(rtField.Data)));
                         ScriptCast(this.layoutDoc.onTextChanged, null)?.script.run({ this: this.layoutDoc, text: newText });
                         unchanged = false;
                     }