diff --git a/crates/engine/src/commands/edit.rs b/crates/engine/src/commands/edit.rs
index 44acad8a..46e10ee0 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/commands/edit.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/commands/edit.rs
@@ -115,6 +115,11 @@ fn duplicate(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
         if !items.is_empty() {
             return super::prop_groups::duplicate_contents(s, &items);
         }
+        // Text animators or their selectors selected → duplicate them inside their text layers.
+        let items = super::prop_groups::selected_animator_items(s);
+        if !items.is_empty() {
+            return super::prop_groups::duplicate_contents(s, &items);
+        }
     }
     let (cid, ids) = layers_p(s, p)?;
     let new = s.edit("Duplicate", None, |proj, st| {
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/commands/prop_groups.rs b/crates/engine/src/commands/prop_groups.rs
index e4d80b16..3a4c9657 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/commands/prop_groups.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/commands/prop_groups.rs
@@ -100,6 +100,22 @@ pub(crate) fn selected_contents(s: &Session) -> Vec<(LayerId, Uid)> {
     out
 }
 
+/// Text animators and their selectors selected on the active comp's text layers, top to bottom.
+/// A selector inside a selected animator isn't listed, since it is copied with it.
+pub(crate) fn selected_animator_items(s: &Session) -> Vec<(LayerId, Uid)> {
+    let mut out = vec![];
+    let Some(c) = s.active_comp().filter(|_| !s.state.selected_props.is_empty()) else { return out };
+    for l in c.layers.iter().filter(|l| matches!(l.source, LayerSource::Text)) {
+        if let Some(animators) = l.props.group("text/animators") {
+            let selected = |u: Uid| s.state.selected_props.contains(&(l.id, u));
+            let mut uids = vec![];
+            collect_selected(animators, &selected, &mut uids, 0);
+            out.extend(uids.into_iter().map(|u| (l.id, u)));
+        }
+    }
+    out
+}
+
 fn collect_selected(g: &PropGroup, selected: &dyn Fn(Uid) -> bool, out: &mut Vec<Uid>, depth: usize) {
     if depth > super::shape_stroke::MAX_DEPTH {
         return;
@@ -174,8 +190,9 @@ pub(crate) fn paste_contents(s: &mut Session, p: &Value) -> Result<Value> {
     Ok(json!({"contents": pasted.iter().map(|(_, u)| *u).collect::<Vec<_>>()}))
 }
 
-/// Edit ▸ Duplicate with shape items selected: each is copied in place, above the original and
-/// named as After Effects does ("Rectangle 1" → "Rectangle 2"), and the copies are selected.
+/// Edit ▸ Duplicate with shape items, text animators or selectors selected: each is copied in
+/// place, above the original and named as After Effects does ("Rectangle 1" → "Rectangle 2"),
+/// and the copies are selected.
 pub(crate) fn duplicate_contents(s: &mut Session, items: &[(LayerId, Uid)]) -> Result<Value> {
     let c = "edit.duplicate";
     let cid = s.active_comp_id().ok_or(EngineError::NoComp)?;
@@ -183,7 +200,7 @@ pub(crate) fn duplicate_contents(s: &mut Session, items: &[(LayerId, Uid)]) -> R
         let mut next = proj.next_id;
         let mut out = vec![];
         for (lid, uid) in items {
-            let parent = layer_mut(proj, cid, *lid)?.props.parent_of_mut(*uid).ok_or_else(|| bad(c, "the shape item is gone"))?;
+            let parent = layer_mut(proj, cid, *lid)?.props.parent_of_mut(*uid).ok_or_else(|| bad(c, "the group is gone"))?;
             let Some((i, Node::Group(g))) = parent.children.iter().enumerate().find(|(_, n)| n.uid() == *uid) else { continue };
             let mut g = g.clone();
             g.reassign_uids(&mut next);
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/tests_text.rs b/crates/engine/src/tests_text.rs
index a57f87a7..84f88fd3 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/tests_text.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/tests_text.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 //! undo/redo and serde round-trips).
 
 use effectcraft_keyframe::Value as KV;
-use effectcraft_project::{Node, Project, PropGroup};
+use effectcraft_project::{LayerId, Node, Project, PropGroup};
 use serde_json::json;
 
 use crate::Session;
@@ -244,3 +244,27 @@ fn menus_have_text_animation_entries() {
     assert!(s.is_enabled("layer.enablePerChar3D"));
     assert!(!s.is_enabled("layer.addTextSelector"), "needs an animator");
 }
+
+/// Duplicate with a Range Selector selected under a text animator copies the selector, not the
+/// whole text layer (#1665); a selected animator is copied the same way.
+#[test]
+fn duplicate_copies_selected_text_selector_not_the_layer() {
+    let (mut s, t) = session();
+    s.execute("layer.addTextAnimator", json!({"layer": t, "properties": ["tracking"]})).unwrap();
+    let anims = |s: &Session| s.active_comp().unwrap().layer(LayerId(t)).unwrap().props.group("text/animators").unwrap().clone();
+    let selectors = |s: &Session| -> Vec<u64> { anims(s).groups().next().unwrap().sub("selectors").unwrap().groups().map(|g| g.uid).collect() };
+    let sel = selectors(&s)[0];
+
+    s.execute("prop.select", json!({"layer": t, "prop": sel, "selectKeys": false})).unwrap();
+    s.execute("edit.duplicate", json!({})).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(s.active_comp().unwrap().layers.len(), 1, "no second text layer");
+    assert_eq!(selectors(&s).len(), 2, "the selector is copied");
+    s.execute("edit.undo", json!({})).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(selectors(&s), vec![sel]);
+
+    let anim = anims(&s).groups().next().unwrap().uid;
+    s.execute("prop.select", json!({"layer": t, "prop": anim, "selectKeys": false})).unwrap();
+    s.execute("edit.duplicate", json!({})).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(s.active_comp().unwrap().layers.len(), 1);
+    assert_eq!(anims(&s).groups().count(), 2, "the animator is copied");
+}