Anchor Points Disappeared

I was playing around with the guides making margins ect.
I typed some text & went to grab it to expand it & now it wont work? It seems the anchor points are locked or something?
I cant drag out the corner of a box to make it bigger or smaller either?
Any help appreciated.

Did you by chance turn off the bounding box feature? Go to View>Show Bounding Box
Hope that helps, if not give a bit more info or a screen capture of the problem and we'll try again.
Michael Riordan
http://www.learnadobesoftware.com

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