Blue line around active boxes disappears, cannot figure out why....

Question

Hi ... hope you can help me with this, it's a minor irritation but it's driving me nuts. I'm writing a report that has several boxes with imported graphics in it.
The active boxes have a light blue line around it, with tiny clear boxes in the corners and side mid-points. I can drag any of those tiny boxes to resize the image, or use the metrics inspector to enter the dimensions numerically. But sometimes, when I make the boxes larger, the blue line around the active box disappears.
Those blue lines lining the active box are useful for aligning the graphics boxes, so it would be nice if they stopped disappearing on me.
Anyone know why that happens?
Thanks!
shireen,
new to iWorks

Answer 1

I don't have any troubles selecting and aligning text boxes and graphics since I stopped sending them all the way to the back (arrange menu/send to back). There are times when you want them back there but most of the time you don't. Pages uses layers and one of the layers is the default text layer. Anything behind this text layer is difficult to select.
You can select items behind the text layer by clicking in the area outside the margins and drag the pointer over to the graphic without releasing the mouse. If you use the 'send backward' command the object still remains easy to select.
Some objects that have transparent areas (PDF's created from eps files for example) can only be selected by the click and drag method described above or by carefully positioning the pointer over a black or colored area until the pointer turns from a cursor to a pointer.
Kurt