PSE freezes when adding text - help

I have a MAC and have installed PSE 11 successfully.  I'm working on a birthday project and everytime I try to add text, the whole thing freezes.  I force shut down as it's the only thing to get me out of it, and reboot, and it does it again, and again and again.  Please help.  Thanks.

Actually, before doing all that, let's check PSE itself. Go to the editor preferences>general, click this button, and restart the editor:

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