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Why is this happening when I expand the text? I used Illustrator a couple of days ago, and everything was functioning normally then.
I figured it out. Bounding box was hidden. (View - bounding box).
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Looks normal to me.
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That does not look like an unusual number of anchor points for expaned text.
What were you expecting the anchor points to be like?
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Like this (picture a classmate sent me as a test):
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I figured it out. Bounding box was hidden. (View - bounding box).
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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.
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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.