Indesign CC: Type tool

Using InDesign CC, it has been working fine then today when I try and drag a type box it automatically goes to 21" and I can not type into it.

No Object Style just clicking on the Type Tool and clicking on the blank page. As soon as I click to start to drag for a text box a 21" box appears and I can not type into it. It has the red X in the bottom right as though it is a text box with more copy than you can see in it. But there is not any copy in it.

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tip for accessing the hidden user library (OS X 10.7):
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Type Tool Tips for Photoshop
Most folks understand how to create text in Photoshop. You select the Type Tool from the Toolbox, or you tap the "T" key on your keyboard. Then, in the Character Palette you set the attributes for font, color, size, etc. A simple click in your document window will mark the spot where you may begin typing unbounded "point" text. Or, you click and drag in your document window to create a paragraph text box. Type out your text, then tap your "Enter" key to commit the text to its new layer.
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Note: The keyboard shortcuts that follow assume you are using a Mac. If you're using Windows, substitute the CTRL key for "Command."
Double-Click on the boxed 'T' thumbnail on the desired Text Layer in the Layers Palette. This will select and highlight all of the text on that layer.
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"End" key will move cursor to the end of last line of text.When text is NOT highlighted, but cursor is flashing within the text:
"Home" key moves cursor to the beginning of the line it's in.
"End" key moves cursor to the end of the line it's in.
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Command + "End" moves cursor to end of the last line of text.
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Shift + "End" selects text from cursor position to the end of the line it's in.
Shift + Command + "Home" selects text from cursor position to the beginning of the first line of text.
Shift + Command + "End" selects text from cursor position to the end of the last line of text.Arrow keys can also be used to select text in various ways. When your cursor is flashing within the text:
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Shift + Left Arrow cumulatively selects text one character or space at a time, from cursor position, progressing toward the beginning of the text.
⇒ Add the Command key to select whole words at a time, in either direction.
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Shift + Down arrow selects text from cursor position forward to the next line below the cursor position.
⇒ Add the Command key to select text starting from the cursor position, and accumulating either back to the beginning of the first line, or forward to the end of the last line.
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Type Tool Visual Indicators
Keep a close eye on your Type Tool cursor as you move it near to and away from a hunk of text in your document window.
When you see it as a plain old "I-Bar" cursor⇒
⇒...that means that it's ready to select a position within that text, or to select a hunk of that text.
When you see a "boxed I-Bar" cursor⇒
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Want to FORCE Photoshop to create a new Type Layer, even though you're seeing the plain I-Bar cursor?
Hold the SHIFT key, then either click, or click-n-drag out a paragraph text box.
Info assembled & provided by phosphor.digital.network. Please note that this is a first draft and is not meant to be complete. There may also be some mistakes. Relax...if you point 'em out, I'll fix 'em.

A keyboard shortcut from Type tool to Selection tool

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I'd certainly recommend changing this potentially problematic shortcut, it's quite easy to to hit the V key when a text frame is live but out of sight on another page and then you have a superfluous character in your artwork.
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I'm a bit of newbie to Indesign and was just wondering if someone could help me out. I'm having problems with the Type Tool.
I've been working on my first few documents, (simple 1 page postcards), but when I go back to add some more text using the Type Tool it doesn't create the usual type frame/box and the cursor just goes straight to the top left hand side of the document? I'm sure I must be doing something wrong.
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You probably have a rectangle as a background on your page? When you click anywhere on that rectangle with text tool, it converts your rectangle to text frame and insertion point jumps to top-left corner of frame.
It´s a bit annoying but you can get rid of that feature from preferences, in Type tab, there is a checked feature Text tool converts frames to text frames (or something like that) Just uncheck it... Then you have to change those accidentally converted rectangles back to grapgic frames (Select rectangle and choose Object>Content>Graphic)
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