Help! Can't resize text boxes anymore, or change from point-area text box

For some reason, Illustrator just did this same thing to me today (03/26/2024) with version 28.1. This is the first time in more than 5 years it was set to hide the bounding box when I opened the program. I'm glad there is an easy fix (View > Show Bounding box).

Your answer was such a ray of sunlight Ton Frederikes. I don't use AI much so I just used the workaround and created a new text box based on my size requirements. I want to laugh at myself .... the solution was so simple. Thank you.

AVD,

Unless you get a better suggestion, and unless it only happens in a specific document, you can try the following (excerpts from a longer list)

1) Close down Illy and open again;

2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to at least 5 times);

3) Log out of your Adobe account and log back in;

4) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);

5) Follow the instructions here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/setting-preferences.html#setting_illustrator_preferences.

You can take a backup of the folders if you like your preferences, to avoid losing them in vain. Location is mentioned in the article.

Edit to add, this is also happening with ALL my bounding boxes such as shapes. There are no cursor hover options to resize/rotate anything.