Cannot resize images, textboxes, shapes, etc.

When I try to resize a shape, a photo or a textbox or try to change the mask on an image, I cannot grab the handles of the box (except, just to make things frustrating, occasionally). Tables can be resized.
Should I dig out the disk and reinstall and then upgrade the program or is there a simpler way to go?
thanks for any help,

It's quite possible that crashing corrupted the Pages preferences. There is no need to reinstall & reinstalling doesn't replace the preference file. Go to HD > Users > (your account) > Library > Preferences & delete the com.apple.iwork.pages.plist & then restart Pages & see if the problem is fixed.

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multiplexed2 wrote:
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