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Unselectable text - puzzled

Community Beginner ,
Feb 14, 2017 Feb 14, 2017

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I've been handed a document to reflow. All well, but then this page pops up - see Fig 1.Fig 1.png

Went through the normal routine of selecting below and up and the "74%" never selected.Fig 2Fig 2.png

Even went to the master pages and looked to see if someone was having a laugh at my expense, but nothing.

I moved the text frame out of the way to try and see, well if anything, happened when I selected it... nothing.

Apologies, but brain is aching and eyes popping out of my head... any help would be liberally toasted in your name, this evening!

Lawrence

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Community Expert , Feb 14, 2017 Feb 14, 2017

If the content is not on a locked layer, I would try on a copy of the file to be safe:

- Select-all then delete. if it is still there, check the Object > Lock menu, maybe the object itself is locked

- Links Panel, to check if somehow it comes from an external source, you might be able to edit that, or reinsert it

- Select with the Ctrl or command on Mac to select objects below another.

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Is there more than one layer in the document, and if so, is the type on a locked layer?

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If the content is not on a locked layer, I would try on a copy of the file to be safe:

- Select-all then delete. if it is still there, check the Object > Lock menu, maybe the object itself is locked

- Links Panel, to check if somehow it comes from an external source, you might be able to edit that, or reinsert it

- Select with the Ctrl or command on Mac to select objects below another.

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