Cannot resize text box in Illustrator CS3

Make sure you have selected the "Selection Tool", not anything else. The black solid arrow at the very top or top left of the tools pallet.

Try quitting illustrator and deleting your preferences.

Plan A:
View -> Show Bounding Box
(As best as I can tell, this most likely will fix the problem)

Plan B:
Use the resize tool (near the rotate tool) on your tool palette. Be sure to hold down shiift to constrain the properties.

Good luck.

(And what is with everyone always assuming you need to restart and delete prefs? What is this...Windows? )

jeankim76 said:

SwiftLives,
That worked! Thank you so much!!
Jean~

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I'm glad.

The irony is that I'm using Windows.

(not by choice.)

hey this happens to me all the time - all because I am used to using control b as the bold shortcut (on windows) - this turns the bounding box off in illustrator. Hope this helps someone!

Just for fun

Try control + shift + .
or control + shift + ,

to grow and shrink the text. This is on windows so mac users adjust accordingly.

SwiftLives said:

I'm glad.

The irony is that I'm using Windows.

(not by choice.)

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well you made me smile this morning.

Click on layer (not the 'T' icon but to the right of this) in layer palette. Control click and scroll down the drop-down to 'convert to paragraph text'.

Voila!