Hey All,

So I've read all the forums across this site and the entire web and am completely perplexed. I do not have/run entourage or Quicken, so it isn't that. Here is my problem:

I woke up today to do some work on illustrator and I am no longer able to scale any boxes - be they created by the rectangle tool or the text tool. When I click on my selection tool it now merely acts exactly the same as the direction select tool - it can move my boxes all over the page but will not allow me to click on any sides to scale the box manually. I currently am trial-and-erroring my way through numerical transformation (and am going CRAZY!)

I am relatively new (a year or so) to the program - and it is very possible that I've turned off some function thus making me unable to scale using my selection tool. But my two hour search through the menus has yielded nothing.

any advice?

Thanks

JG