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mariahh41446307
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July 27, 2018
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Selection Tool Glitching

  • July 27, 2018
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My selection tool is acting like my direct selection tool in Illustrator on my MAC. I was using the type tool and went to move my box and it was acting like this. I've attached screenshots to show I am on selection and not direct selection when it's happening. How do I toggle this off??

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sjalghamdi
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May 19, 2020

Try CMD + SHIFT + B

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    Billy5FEE
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    March 6, 2021

    THANKYOU!

    Bill Silbert
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    Bill SilbertCommunity Expert
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    July 27, 2018

    It looks to me like the selection tool is doing what it's supposed to do. It is selecting objects with all of the points selected. In your bottom screen shot every point is solid which means fully selected. If you were using the Direct Selection tool then all of the points would be hollow. In your top screen shot the entire area type box has been selected with all of the corner points solid. What exactly do you see as the problem here?

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    mariahh41446307Author
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    July 27, 2018

    I understand the confusion, so normally when for example my text box is selected with the selection tool I can resize the text box. However, now I can't do that, it only lets me move it (with the blue points) and  in the second picture it should just put a box around it so I can resize it or rotate it but it's not

    Bill Silbert
    Community Expert
    Bill SilbertCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 27, 2018

    Try View>Show Bounding Box.

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