Object is showing as 5779.558mm high

[GrangerMorton]

Hi, ongoing CC issues...

I have a client file that has a logotype, the length of the combined letters is 561mm. Height is reading as 5779.558mm.  It should be about 82mm.  If I decrease the figure in the box to 5000mm it moves it downwards!!

Its actual position on the y scale is 1079mm, I can still move it using that as well.

Puzzled

[Monika Gause]

Can you select it and check the appearance panel if any effect is applied?

Also in the Preferences > General is "Use Preview Bounds" turned on?

[GrangerMorton]

Monika

no effects, 'use preview bounds' is off...

in searching... that measurement appears to be the maximum area, I wonder if that's relevant?

[GrangerMorton]

got it!

it was picking up a guide line (although curiously none are visible), I could only see it in outline mode.

I viewed and then hid guides, locked and unlocked guides and even without saving, it now behaves as it should.... very strange...

thanks for your help

[Jacob Bugge]

Granger,

When that figure (or some 227.542 inches, or 16.383 points/pixels) turns up, you are looking at the total width/height of the Workspace, and the most likely/frequent explanation is a misguided guide.