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The title says it all. Randomly last night while working on a project, I was unable to make any selections. When I click on something, the bounding box doesn't show up, therefore I'm unable to edit, resize, or move it. Even when dragging with my selection/direct selection tools, a box doesn't show up, only the X and Y coordinates box. Nothing is locked or grouped together. I'm still allowed to make new objects, but I'm at a loss at how to fix this without starting a new project from scratch.
Can you click on the' >' in the layers panel and display all the objects on Layer 1 and share a screenshot?
What happens if you try this:
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First thing to try is restoring your InDesign preferences to default ('out of the box') settings:
Let's see if that works.
Also does the problem occur ONLY in a particular document? or in all documents, including new documents you create?
If it's only the one document:
IF this fails, see if you can take a screen capture of what you see in InDesign and post that, it might be immediately clear to one of us what the cause of the issue is.
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I restored all preference and default settings and that didn't do anything. Screen mode is also in normal, and frame edges are shown. This is only happening in this one specific document, so something must've happened along the way for it to do this.
This is what I see:
You can't see my mouse but in the screenshot it was hovering over the white rectangle, but the bounding box didn't appear. Currently at the point where I might just chalk it up to a loss and start from scratch because I have no idea what the issue is.
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Can you click on the' >' in the layers panel and display all the objects on Layer 1 and share a screenshot?
What happens if you try this:
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Your first suggestion fixed it. Everything is on one layer so I found I have to manually select the element on the layers panel if I want to edit it. Thank you!
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Excellent!
See if there is an object above the design elements you want to edit that might be blocking you from selecting them as well.
There is a little trick you can apply to click through a 'stack' of overlapping objects as well:
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Yep, that was the issue! There was a rogue random object hidden in the very top corner that was only viewable if zoomed out all of the way, after deleting it I was able to move everything like normal again. Thanks again!
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Glad you managed to get it all working again and pleasure to help figure out what the issue was.
Happy InDesigning