Direct Select Tool Not Working in Illustrator 2020

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November 14, 2019
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I'm having an issue in the latest illustrator update. I want to add a radius to a single corner on a shape, but the direct select tool won't show that the anchor point is selected and doesn't display the rounded corner icon. The icon appears using the regular selection tool, but it's on all four corners of a rectangle so editing a single corner on it's own isn't possible. Has anyone else had this issue?

Correct answer Monika Gause

Cmd+H is the shortcut for Show/Hide Edges.

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Marissa K Creates

Participant

I have "show edges" and "show bounding box" and anchor points still won't come up when I click the direct selection tool. I'm trying to change the points of a letter, could that be why it's not working? Am I missing something? An image of my settings is below.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

In order to use the direct selection tool on a letter you would first need to outline the text.

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Takoyakii

Participant

all of your comments is not working for me.. it's always the same and that for years now.... why adobe don't just freakin' go and fix it... or what for do we pay? always if I create a few icons (what is quite normal for an animation clip) this corner widget stops working..

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Ged Frances30412174djqd

Participant

yeah still doesn't work

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margaretp1966

Participant

Thank you so much for posting your solution, I was beating my brains out trying to figure out why the direct selection tool wasn't working all of a sudden. 🙂

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Prashant26879240nc3c

Participant

Thank you so much for posting your solution, I was beating my brains out trying to figure out why the direct selection tool wasn't working all of a sudden. 🙂

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