When I open a file in Illustrator CS6, I have to then click in the document to "select" it...

When I open a file and try to select, copy, or paste objects within it, nothing happens. I have to click in the document (so as to select it), but then it zooms out to the max with an error noise. Then I have to zoom back in and continue with my task. Of course, I can just open a document and click in it before I proceed, but it really screws with my flow when I'm flippin' between open and closed files trying to copy and paste things quickly, which I do a lot of. You'd think a file you just opened would automatically be "selected". Nothing in Preferences appears culpable, so is it perhaps an OS deal? Or is that just the way it is?
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That's not what I said. I have to click in the document itself before I can select any of the objects within it -- as if the document needs to be recognized again, once opened. I cannot just open a file and select, copy, or paste objects. Which I find a nuisance.

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