Type guide?

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Michael_P._Mills
Sep 10, 2008
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I’ve been typing text into images for some time, and when I do I get a box around the type that helps me align things. All of a sudden the box went away. And I don’t know how to get it back.

Any suggestions?

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CJ
Cindy_Johnston
Sep 10, 2008
View>Show>Layer Edges? Or are you referring to a text box?
MP
Michael_P._Mills
Sep 10, 2008
No that’s the blue box. This was a box that had top, bottom, left, and right indicators? Maybe it was a text box?

But thanks,
CJ
Cindy_Johnston
Sep 10, 2008
Yes, that’s a text box.
MP
Michael_P._Mills
Sep 10, 2008
Okay so how do I get the text box back? I searched Help, which is useless, to this day I have never been able to get anything from Help.
AS
Ann_Shelbourne
Sep 10, 2008
Just select the Type tool and draw a box marquee with it.

Then click inside the text box that you have just created, and start typing.
MP
Michael_P._Mills
Sep 10, 2008
No that’s not what I meant. I can’t imagine that nobody else out there did not use this. When I typed text and entered it, I then selected the Move tool, and I got a set of (for lack of a better term) little square boxes at the top, bottom, and sides of the text I entered on the image.

And they suddenly disappeared.

Maybe I’m not describing it very well? It was extremely useful in providing a consistent text alignment.

But thanks
MP
Michael_P._Mills
Sep 10, 2008
This thing is really fouled up. Not I cannot change the text size. I can only change the sizes to the preset sizes in the character pallet?
CC
Conrad_Chavez
Sep 10, 2008
For the box, maybe you turned off Show Transform Controls up in the Options bar.
MP
Michael_P._Mills
Sep 10, 2008
That’s it Conrad, thanks so very much. I was tearing my hair out, what little I have left.

Again thanks.

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