Scaling objects and texts made harder by Adobe

[mattl63375823]

I used to be able to scale my objects, pics, and text just by selecting the item with my select tool (V) and using the handles that appeared. But those handles are suddenly gone when I select with the select tool. Instead, I have to type the letter E to bring up the free transform tool. Can I get this back to normal?

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Does View > Show Bounding Box help?

[mattl63375823]

 Yes, that fixed it! Thank you so much! WHY ON EARTH would this just happen randomly?

[Ton Frederiks]

Nobody knows why, it may be caused by accidentally hitting a key combination.

[Ton Frederiks]

Cats walking on keyboards are known to cause this problem.

[mattl63375823]

LOL, now that's funny! Really, I appreciate your help. 

[Ton Frederiks]

Glad to hear that helped!

[mattl63375823]

I re-worded my question to not be so accusatory since I can't prove who forced the update for me... Adobe or my cat LOL

[Ton Frederiks]

🙂

[pixxxelschubser]

By the way the shortcut for bounding box on/off is [Shift]+[Ctrl]+[B]

Most of the time, on a QWERTY keyboard, it is accidentally pressed instead of Paste in Place [Shift]+[Ctrl]+[V] or Ungroup [Shift]+[Ctrl]+[G]

… or sometimes by a walking cat

😉

[Larry G. Schneider]

Or by using the short cut to try and force faux bold type.