Resizing text boxes in Pages 5.2

Looking for some pretty simple help here:
At this point I merely want to resize a text box and the edges of the box refuses to be active for me to pull it to change the shape!    Why is this so hard now?
(Below is my mini gripe session about Page 5.2)
I'm using Pages 5.2 and the text boxes are suddenly very difficult to manage and it is very frustrating.  When working with the boxes they are covered with too much graphics with the top and side bars, and when using multi boxes on one pages the control graphics make a big visual tangle.  Adding rows, columns, deleting the same, even moving a box on the page is a struggle now because you have to find the little cross icon that appears on only one little place in the corner when before you could just drag the box from anywhere within the box!  Very unpleasant changes......

Okay:  I see part of the problem:  I'm confusing tables with text boxes.  I'd rather work with text boxes.  Is there a way for a text box to have a solid, visible outline?  That would make it much easier!

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