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Can't rotate or scale objects with selection tool

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November 26, 2018
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For the past week, I've been unable to use the selection tool to rotate or scale objects

The only solution I've found online is to "Show Bounding Box," but my bounding box is already shown. It has nothing to do with that. I can see the bounding box and the anchor points, it's just that my selection tool won't change into the rotate or scale tool when it hovers over the anchor points.

I've been using the Free Transform Tool for now, but it's getting really annoying. I'd really like to fix this. Thanks in advance!

Correct answer Mehrdad237384811m7a

To anyone who might still have this problem, mine got solved by choosing "Show bounding box" from the "View" tab.
The default shortcut on Windows is Shift + Ctrl + B

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Ernest31209060k6oq

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Try selecting the object and then pressing Control + T.

Monika Gause

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@Ernest31209060k6oq schrieb:

Try selecting the object and then pressing Control + T.

That is Photoshop.

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oper8a

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None of this worked for me. However when I manually went into the VIEW drop down menu and manually clicked on HIDE BOUNDING BOX and SHOW BOUNDING BOX it started to work. Using the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + B did not work. Weird.

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Mehrdad237384811m7aCorrect answer

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To anyone who might still have this problem, mine got solved by choosing "Show bounding box" from the "View" tab.
The default shortcut on Windows is Shift + Ctrl + B

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Muhammad284745633yw3

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Thank you so much! you really help me

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Jeffrey22263211q5fn

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I'm still having this problem today (12/15/2021) and I've tried resetting my preferences, unticking the 'Hide corner widget for angles greater than 177', updating AI in my Creative Cloud and restarting my computer.

Any additional help and I'm trying to learn AI and it's frustrating that this tool which gets used so frequently just disappeared in my program.

Thanks!

Doug A Roberts

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Can you show a screenshor of your workspace with an object selected using the Selection tool (black arrow)?

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maryam20634077m9y4

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Thanks for sharing the details. I would request you try the following steps and let us know how it goes:

Close all Adobe applications and go to the following location
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Adobe
Rename Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Illustrator 26 Settings folders to Adobe Illustrator.old and Adobe Illustrator 26 Settings.old

Disclaimer: Please note that renaming preferences folders will remove all the custom settings, and Illustrator will launch with default settings & create a new folder in their place. You can revert to your old settings by deleting these newly created folders & removing the .old from the renamed folders.
Rename the CEP folder to CEP.old from the following location:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe
If that doesn't help, rename the UXP folder to UXP.old from the following locations:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\
If that doesn't help either, uninstall the application using the CC Cleaner tool and restart the system (most important) reinstall from the Creative Cloud Desktop app.

I will be looking forward to your response.

Regards,

Anshul Saini

Hi @Anshul_Saini
Thanks for your kind help

I faced this problem today and did all the things you mentioned above, but the selection tool is still not rotationg my object.

Its really weird because I can rotate the shapes i draw with pen tool easily with the selection tool, but when I use the rectangle tool, it doesnt work!
I would really appreciate it if you could help me.

I will be looking forward to your response.

Regards,
Maryam

rodrigoangeiras

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Shift + Command / CTRL + B.

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defaultmkuquafphjbg

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This saved me! What is this shortcut for?

Doug A Roberts

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It is to show/hide the bounding box, but the original poster specifically stated that it wasn't the problem.

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Truong5ED5

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I have the literally same problem, thank you for helping us, sir.

Jeff Witchel, ACI

Community Expert

Have you tried resetting preferences? How to set preferences in Illustrator

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gabean_sproutAuthor

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This helped! I didn't reset them, but I went into my "Selection and Anchor Display" preference menu, and saw that "Hide corner widget for angles greater than 177" was selected. Not sure how this happened, but this solved my problem.

Thank you!