Text editing

Thanks, Barbara. I saw those options, but the program kept greying them out, etc. 

OK, now I am wondering what kind of wierd games the program is playing with me, because for days I was unable to get any of those text features to work, but now most of them do - but not all of the time. The inconsistency is infuriating. Before when I would make selections, the program would usually just ignore me completely, as if there was some magic "do it now" button that needed to be selected after already making command selections, just to make the command buttons work. 

Recolor is still giving me fits, no changes there, but I think it is because the Pantone colors I am required to use are no longer available, so the program keeps stubbornly changing my colors. So I will have to copy and paste things like product name banners with colored backgrounds in as image files and hope for the best. 

Are these inconsistencies related to AI (aritifical intelligence, not adobe illustrator)? Until I started using my nice new alienware computer with AI, I have never had any computer (that was not about to crash) play these annoying games of "maybe I will, or maybe I think you are stupid and I have a better idea" with me.  Commands that work as instructed only after you repeat them several times, as if the machine wants to make sure you really meant it...WTH?  I am going to back up all of my files and have the AI ripped out my os, because I don't have time for this foolishness.