Suddenly can't rate photos (stars)

I must have clicked on something inadvertantly.  I suddenly can't click on the stars to rate photos in Bridge.  I can go to "label" and rate but it takes takes too long with 100's of photos to rate.  I'm sure there's a simple solution.  Please help~

Resetting prefs usually solves curious problems just by resetting them. BTW, you only need to hold down the Ctrl (opt for Mac) while restarting Bridge to get the menu for prefs reset.
And also be aware that you can use also the short cut cmd + dot (for Mac -don't know the Win shortcut but should be something similar) to increase rating with 1 and cmd + comma to decrease with 1 star.
Double check if you did not have hit the Ctrl + T key by accident, this selects thumbnail view only (menu View / Show only thumbnails) because that does not provide stars, names etc.

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