Selection Tool Won't Resize

[BittyEnd]

Illustrator was working fine for me all last week and I've never had a problem using the selection tool to grab and resize my objects but for some reason today my selection tool will only SELECT objects, not resize them.  Upon approaching the corner of an object, the black arrow remains but a small white square appears at the bottom right instead of the entire cursor turning into resizing/rotating arrows.  I tried restarting my computer to no avail.  It happens on objects I create as well as objects that I place in.  Any thoughts...?  Thank you!

[prettyboysgonebad]

Thanks @Bitty. You saved my day.

I've been wondering around for a while. Thanks again 

[jeffs78523647]

For some reason this issue has recently been happening again. This must be the third time I searched and found your solution. Thanks!

[Jacob Bugge]

You are thrice welcome, Jeff.

You can turn this into a Bookmark (or similar in your browser) for future use and save the search.

It is probably a keyboard mishit for a nearby keystroke shortcut that seemingly failed to work, and your failing to realize that something else may have happened, then just trying again and getting it right and forgetting about it; the most likely one may be Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+G for Ungroup.

Ctrl/Cmd+H is probably the most frequent keyboard mishit, completely surrounded by other keyboard shorcuts, closing in on all sides.

Anyroad, it is always nice to see old threads live.

[skae4ka]

Thank you ! I just had the same issue.  The solution is simple, and now I know it. Thanks to you!!! 

[Jacob Bugge]

You are welcome, skae4ka.

[solomon5EFC]

that don't even work for me i have the box and it still doesn't let me resize it

[Larry G. Schneider]

Does the Scale Tool work?

[AM.Alishahi]

OMG !

Thanks !! ❤

[Jacob Bugge]

You are welcome, AM.

[Kit5FAA]

Ok...What if I have the bounding box on...but it only lets me resize the bounding box, when I want to it to drag and resize the text?

[Monika Gause]

"Ok...What if I have the bounding box on...but it only lets me resize the bounding box, when I want to it to drag and resize the text?"

You might want to tell us some details of what you want to do - scale an area text?

Use the scale tool for that.

[Kit5FAA]

Hi there,

I actually figured it out. I needed to double click on that little circle to the right to change the it. 

[TTITTA_M]

saved my life!THANK U!

[Cris108]

Turning on Bounding Box doesn't help. MacOS Ventura 13.4.1 (c), iMac. Illustrator 27.7.0

I get "This operation cannot be completed becauses of an unknown error (NOKY) when I try to shift > drag a corner of the boounding box. Also happens when I use the "Scale" option in the Tools palette.

[Jacob Bugge]

marshall,

Yours look more like a corruption issue.

Is it happening with only one object/path, or only with artwork within one document, or with any artwork in any document?

[Cris108]

With any object, vector or placed image.

I'm testing, and it may be that this only happens with previous images (not sure starting when), but if I create a new doc and a new vector image, it seems to resize ok. Need to test a bit further on this. Also If I place a previous vector object in the new doc, the problem persists with that object.

[Jacob Bugge]

marshall,

From your description, I believe it is a document corruption (rather than a general corruption). It can happen sometimes for some, just like preference corruption.

You can try to rescue parts of the ailing document by pasting one or more at a time into a new one, then go back when it goes wrong and try with something else, to see how much survives, if anything. And then create the missing parts anew.