Expanding text creates a lot of anchor points

[ElisabethBrem]

Why is this happening when I expand the text? I used Illustrator a couple of days ago, and everything was functioning normally then. 

[Ton Frederiks]

Looks normal to me. 

[SJRiegel]

That does not look like an unusual number of anchor points for expaned text.

What were you expecting the anchor points to be like?

[ElisabethBrem]

Like this (picture a classmate sent me as a test):

[ElisabethBrem · Accepted solution]

I figured it out. Bounding box was hidden. (View - bounding box). 

[SJRiegel]

This is just a matter of which selection tool you are using. 

Here is the exact same bit of expanded text - with the Selection Tool and with the Direct Selection Tool.

The anchors are there, but only the Direct Selection shows you the anchors.

[ElisabethBrem]

I got the anchor points with whatever selection tool I was using, and never the box around the text. But as I wrote above I had turned off bounding box. It worked perfectly when I turned that on again.