Final Cut Pro won't let me add Chapter Markers

I am editing a long video and have edited several chapter markers to it so far. All of a sudden when I try to make a Chapter Marker, a window comes up saying "You must make a selection in order to perform this operation". ??? I have no clue what has happened. Has anybody else had this problem?

Never had this message.
Sincw you've done this successfully before, you know that you need to make the TL window active (not select the clips), then hit M twice to get a dialogue box and designate the marker as a chapter marker.
If that's what you're doing and still are getting this message, please post a screen shot on your sequence with markers.
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