Unable to rezise any object or text box

[Guest]

I'm unable to resize any objects or text box in any document. I'm using Illustrator CS3. Bounding box and edge are already turned on. Could anyone help me please?

[bettywacka]

Resetting the bounding box just worked for me on the mac. Thank you so much!! And breathe... life is good again!

[BeSunshine]

I had the same bug. I resolved this problem. If someone will have the same problem try to push E on keyboard and do transform!

[Amath44]

Thank you so much! Resetting it worked for me!

[NewLifePuppet]

Shift + Ctrl + B  will fix the resizing problem.  You probably hit a hot key combination by mistake.  I'm not sure the combination on Mac, but it's under View > Hide/Show Bounding Box

Ctrl + H will enable the nodes again.  Again, probably a keyboard accident.  It's also under View > Hide/Show Edges.

Hope this helps.  God bless you all!

[TinaGee]

I just encounter this problem. Shift + Ctrl + B  solution worked for me. Thanks

[ichigokazuki]

You saved me. I couldn't fix it all all, until you mentioned going under view for showing the edges and I saw that somehow I clicked do not show bounding box, clicked it again and now I finally complete my project.

Thank you!

[pabloporta]

Thanks a lot!!! I had the exact same problem and It worked!!!

[Gogo13-f3hZYk]

Thanks heaps!

[Guest]

THANK YOU!

[rulfanani]

very helpful, thanks

[claidesl23977097]

That was it for me. Tks!

[andiem47410262]

THANK YOU

[VuVu]

HI 123qwaszx, I went to VIEW and selected SHOW BOUNDING BOX. If you select HID BOUNDING BOX you will see the situation you describe reappear.

[VuVu]

*HIDE

[AmroseBirani]

I was stuck with the same issue.

I didn't know how it happened!

Thanks a ton!! saved me so much time..I already had put an hour on this..! 😕

[pedroangelo]

The same problem happened to me. The solution i found in another forum:

"Under the "View" menu, make sure it says "hide bounding box" - that means it's currently on. If it's currently off, as is probably the case, it will say "show bounding box". Click on it. Hopefully that will solve your problem.

The keyboard shortcut for that is ctrl-shift-B. "

[mrcjsmith]

This worked for me! Thanks a million! saved me a headache!

[chrisenter]

This is also happening when I draw a text box. I am having the same issue and tried all of the recommendations. Nothing has worked. If anybody has other suggestions, I would appreciate it.

[luvbug900]

Try hitting E! None of the others worked for me but this did the trick!

[chrisenter]

Worked! Thank you. Why would you change that in the program? Errr.

[frazer_stuart]

Ctrl+shift+b

[rose_ayers]

Shift + Ctrl + Alt while restarting is the solution for a PC. 6 years from the original post... I am glad I found this. THANKS!!!

[rakeshyadvanshi]

This is really awsome,,,,,thanks to all....question and answer well....

[bryanwbird]

So how many of us stumbled upon this discussion because we accidentally typed shift-cmd-B instead of shift-cmd-V when trying to paste in place? I learned something new today...

[jacobM33]

I have the latest version of illustrator, and i can't seem to scale an object using the black arrow, selecting an anchor point and dragging! It won't allow me to resize Ive tried everything... you use to be able to scale without having to go into object-transform-scale-etc. Does anyone know how I can do this?

Thanks