Everytime i use move tool...i get this message "Can't move the objects. The command was canceled."

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[Anubhav M]

Hello @SundayGladiator,

Could you try copying all of the layers/objects from this document to a new document to see if it helps? If the problem persists, kindly share a link to the file here or via DM after uploading it to a file-sharing service, so I can check it on my end.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Anubhav

[SundayGladiator · Accepted solution]

Hello Anubhav,

Always appreciate your responsiveness!

I solved my issue - somewhat ..

Turns out there were box objects - eg basic outlined boxes - created in Word along with the text in this form type of .docx file. When I created the PDF from Word, then brought into AI, I was able to create outlines and move the text, but not the graphics (boxes) from Word. They were frozen, unselectable. Thereby entire document could not be moved, nor copy/pasted into another AI file.

Therefore I somehow isolated those problematic boxes using the direct selection tool (took many clicks on those suckers to get the points to appear), deleted all the graphic boxes, and re-created those boxes in Illustrator.

Voila - All the text + the boxes can now be moved.

In summary - Realizing any imported shapes from Word into AI causes issues.

Hope someone finds this helpful.