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March 17, 2018
Question

Type Tool not displaying formatting boxes/text cursor

  • March 17, 2018
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When I use the Type Tool, it works fine but a while ago it suddenly stopped showing the red border box, the text cursor, the blue/white resizing box, and even highlighting/selecting color.

I only see the text when I edit, my cursor, and nothing else.

My cursor does change to the 2 different Type Tool cursors, but everything else is "invisible". I can't see what text I've selected, where my text cursor is currently, or any borders around the text. Again, it's been working perfectly fine but it's just getting annoying that I can't see what text I've highlighted or where I'm about to type.

When I hold down the mouse to draw out a box, also nothing shows up. I have already rebooted preferences (Shift+Alt). I didn't even think these were features you could turn off, so please help!

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    Participant
    March 22, 2020

    I had the same problem in V14.0.4 and it seems to be linked to Windows scaling set to 125%.
    It seems that diplaying the rulers in the Program monitor solve the problem:
    Select the wrench icon at the bottom, and then turn on Rulers.
    Other solutions : https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/text-boxes-have-disappeared-in-premiere-pro/m-p/10242182?page=1

    Participant
    April 29, 2020

    I'm running 14.1 with Windows scaling at 125% and had the same issue.  Turning on rulers solved it for me - thanks for the solution!

    Known Participant
    October 17, 2018

    Has anyone come up with a solution for this yet?

    I never experienced this issue at all with Premiere Pro CC 2018, but after performing the upgrade to the 2019 version last night, I now also cannot work with text boxes at all, due to not being able to see their boundaries and resize them.

    Known Participant
    October 17, 2018

    Just a quick update: I reinstalled Premiere Proc CC 2018 (v12.1.2) and the issue is gone again.  So it seems it's something that broke again with the new version.

    Legend
    March 17, 2018

    Are you working in version 12.0.1?

    Participant
    March 18, 2018

    Yes, updated it a few days ago. I'm pretty sure this issue has actually persisted through 1 or 2 updates.

    Legend
    March 18, 2018

    OK.

    What's your screen size?  Resolution?