Why can't I use selection to control the Bounding box around only selected points

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I have been using Illustrator for years and feel like I have just gone crazy and AI is gas lighting me, I used to be able to use the direct selection (A) to select a group of points, then press selection (V) and get a bounding box around those specific points.

Now all pressing (V) does is select the entire object that the point selection is in and all I can find online is to use (E) which Ive never had to do in the past and still doesn’t function the way I need as it draws a bounding box around the entire shape with just the selected points affected, when I want the box around JUST the selected points.

Am I crazy was this never a setting? Surly there is a way to select points and creating a constrained box.

justlearn

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@Exquisite_fantasy38d7 what version are you using to do that? You could create a new custom keyboard shortcut (it may override an existing keyboard shortcut!)—If you are unhappy about it, you can just reset Illustrator preferences which will generally return Illustrator back to its factory-default settings

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