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Inspiring
December 8, 2011
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Unable to see anchor point and handles of paths in Illustrator (Bounding box)

  • December 8, 2011
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Hi. I'm working on an Illustrator file in CS5. Suddenly when using the Direct Selection Tool - anchor points and handles are not visible regardless if selected or not. They're just not appearing. They DO exist though. When I click-drag to select an area where I know there is an anchor point and then I use the arrow keys to move the anchor point - I see the path change. But I don't see the anchor point that I am moving.

This is all occuring only on a particular file. When I open a new .as file and try to duplicate the problem - all works fine.

Any ideas why this is suddenly happening? I assume I accidently hit some thing to change a setting but I can't figure out what. I've checked Selection & Anchor Display in the Preferences, but can't find anything different there when comparing it to a file where everything is working normally.

 

Thanks

Correct answer Mike_Gondek10189183

View >> Show Edges

Or View >> Show Bounding Box

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Mike_Gondek10189183
Community Expert
Mike_Gondek10189183Community ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
December 8, 2011

View >> Show Edges

Or View >> Show Bounding Box

Inspiring
December 8, 2011

Thanks Mike. That was it.

rcraighead... I'm on PC so ctrl+H thanks

nightbirdflying75
Participant
February 16, 2016

Must've hit CTRL + H to hide rulers after using Photoshop and it did something entirely different. THANK YOU.