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Illustrator Selection tool

Robert35079802fmvj
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May 25, 2025 May 25, 2025

My selection tool on Adobe Illustrator has just been acting strangely. Whenever I try to resize the object with it, it appears as the direct selection tool and moves the object. Could you help me?

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Monika Gause Community Expert
Community Expert , May 25, 2025 May 25, 2025

You are looking for the bounding box:

View > Show Bounding box.

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Monika Gause Community Expert
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May 25, 2025 May 25, 2025

You are looking for the bounding box:

View > Show Bounding box.

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Thank you so much.

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