Modifying an existing illustrator file

Hello,
I am new to illustrator and i am trying to modify specific illustrator files. In the files i am trying to modify there is grapfics and some text written on the designs. I can select the text separately but unable to modify those. Can you help?
The only option which i have is to delete them and write a new text there, but that process takes a lot of time, i was wondering if you know of any easier way.
Thanks,

Considering you are new to the application, and the file(s) in question did not originate with you, we can only guess why you're having trouble.
So first, we'll have to determine whether you've got live text, or text that's been converted to outlines...
When you select a piece of text, does it look like this?
(That's live text.)
Or like this?
(Text that has been converted to outlines...not editable as text.)

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