Text tool not working?

ML
Posted By
Michelle_L
Oct 21, 2006
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Suddenly something weird is going on with my text tool. I’m thinking I have done something or turned something on, but using different documents, different text types, different sizes, closing and restarting … to no avail, I still have this problem.

When I go to add text, instead of it bringing up a flashing vertical line where you can then proceed to type, it just puts a little square and kinda locks it in, there is no flashing line. You cannot type. You go to type and nothing comes up. The text colours are okay so it’s not like it’s invisibile. I’m just not sure what I’m doing, I have not experienced this in all the years I’ve been using PS. Any ideas? I’m on CS2

Cheers,
Michelle

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Joe_Zydeco
Oct 21, 2006
Maybe open the Character palette and do a reset?

Help me understand how can you know the text colours are Ok if you cannot type?

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chrisjbirchall
Oct 21, 2006
Check the resolution of your document.

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