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Direct Select Tool Not Working in Illustrator 2020

Community Beginner ,
Nov 14, 2019 Nov 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?

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Community Beginner , Nov 14, 2019 Nov 14, 2019

Nevermind. I somehow had hide edges on and that's why I couldn't see it.

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Community Expert , Nov 03, 2020 Nov 03, 2020

According to the OP, he had Hide Edges showing in the View menu. Use the keyboard shortcut Cmd(Ctrl)-H to toggle between Show/Hide Edges.

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New Here , Mar 15, 2021 Mar 15, 2021

View> Show Edges or Ctrl + H

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Community Expert , May 28, 2021 May 28, 2021

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

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Nov 14, 2019 Nov 14, 2019

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Do you have bounding box showing? View > Show bounding box

Also do you have smart corner widget showing..? View > Show corner widget

What OS are you running?

If the problem continues perhaps post your issues here: https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 14, 2019 Nov 14, 2019

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Thanks for the help. It was my own error.

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 12, 2023 Jun 12, 2023

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Thanks!!!

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Nov 14, 2019 Nov 14, 2019

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Nevermind. I somehow had hide edges on and that's why I couldn't see it.

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Community Expert ,
Nov 14, 2019 Nov 14, 2019

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No problem, it is normally just something simple. We all do it 🙂

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New Here ,
Jul 07, 2020 Jul 07, 2020

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try edit prefernces - selection anchor point & turn of object selection by path only

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Nov 03, 2020 Nov 03, 2020

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How did you solve it? 

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Nov 03, 2020 Nov 03, 2020

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According to the OP, he had Hide Edges showing in the View menu. Use the keyboard shortcut Cmd(Ctrl)-H to toggle between Show/Hide Edges.

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New Here ,
Jan 10, 2022 Jan 10, 2022

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Thanks alot. Had the same issue

 

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New Here ,
Feb 08, 2022 Feb 08, 2022

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Thank you, thank you, thank you. Hide edges. Who would have thunk?

 

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New Here ,
Jul 08, 2023 Jul 08, 2023

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thank you so so so muth

 

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View> Show Edges or Ctrl + H

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Community Beginner ,
May 28, 2021 May 28, 2021

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I had the same problem not seing any anchors with the the Direct Selection Tool. However not Showing edges was the solution but Cmd + H!

 

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May 28, 2021 May 28, 2021

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

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Apr 20, 2021 Apr 20, 2021

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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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New Here ,
Oct 31, 2022 Oct 31, 2022

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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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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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New Here ,
Jun 03, 2022 Jun 03, 2022

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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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New Here ,
Jun 09, 2023 Jun 09, 2023

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yeah still doesn't work

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New Here ,
Feb 05, 2024 Feb 05, 2024

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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.

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Feb 06, 2024 Feb 06, 2024

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

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