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Unable to rezise any object or text box

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June 16, 2009
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I'm unable to resize any objects or text box in any document. I'm using Illustrator CS3. Bounding box and edge are already turned on. Could anyone help me please?

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Correct answer Sven287724515pq5

Holding Shift + Ctrl + B solution worked for me. Thanks

Shift + Ctrl + B solution worked for me aswell, thanks

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PrepressGuy510

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The bounding box solution did not work for me, but the "Expand" command did.

I hope that helps someone.

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novajoseph94

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Actually it could also be because one of your objects are not expanded.

Select each object and go to "Object" > Expand Appearance.

Resizing worked for me after this!

Monika Gause

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novajoseph94 schrieb
Actually it could also be because one of your objects are not expanded.

Not in 2009 and not now.

Expanding your objects should never be necessary in order to be able to scale them.

On top of that it's a bad idea,because making changes will be rather painful afterwards.

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novajoseph94

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worked fine for me, though

Alberto_Sanchez_Aguilera

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FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO's PROBLEM WASN'T SOLVED WITH

Contro+Shift+B

TRY INSTEAD
Contro+Shift+H

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Alberto Sanchez Aguilera schrieb:
TRY INSTEAD
Contro+Shift+H

This shows and hides the artboard. Which resizing problem exactly do you want to solve with it?

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bonominiyogini

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OH MY GOD thank you for this post and for the responses. I was pulling my hair out today.

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stoneavenue

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i did the same thing and it was the tool presets for the move tool try resetting them

jacobM33

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I have the latest version of illustrator, and i can't seem to scale an object using the black arrow, selecting an anchor point and dragging! It won't allow me to resize Ive tried everything... you use to be able to scale without having to go into object-transform-scale-etc. Does anyone know how I can do this?

Thanks

Monika Gause

Community Expert

jacobM33 schrieb:

I have the latest version of illustrator, and i can't seem to scale an object using the black arrow, selecting an anchor point and dragging! It won't allow me to resize Ive tried everything... you use to be able to scale without having to go into object-transform-scale-etc. Does anyone know how I can do this?

Thanks

Please read the thread you're posting in. The answer has been given a few times.

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Anonymous

So how many of us stumbled upon this discussion because we accidentally typed shift-cmd-B instead of shift-cmd-V when trying to paste in place? I learned something new today...