Shape not Changing

[Bob Rivers]

If I type in something like "Book" then highlight it with the selector tool. Then go to Arrange> Convert to Editable Shapes and go back and unclick/click it has not changed into an editable shape. Obviously I'm missing something.

Bob

[mwenz]

Don't select the text with the text tool. Make sure you only click once using the Selector Tool (the arrow). The text cursor cannot be active in the text block.

[Bob Rivers]

Thanks for the tip, but I did everything according to the help file and according to a video I watched. Still nothing. I feel like I'm either doing something out of sequence or something is unchecked or checked whichever the case maybe. I thought maybe it might be corrupt, but I still have 2013 on my computer and it would work either.

Bob

[Christine Farrelly]

When you convert text to editable object you need to ungroup it twice to be able to edit it with the shape editor tool.

Christine

[mwenz]

While you do not have to actually ungroup once converted to curves (you can double click on a single letter and alter its shape with the shape editor), it aids in doing so.

If you text line appears like this on your screen:



Press CTRL + Shift + S (or right-click and choose convert to editable shapes) and in the layer gallery, does it show up like this:



If so, with the group still selected, press CTRL + U TWICE to ungroup. You should then see this in the layer group (and on-screen):



Mike

[Bob Rivers]

That did it.
Thank you Ma'am

Bob

[Bob Rivers]

Thanks mwenz for the detailed version. It cleared up a lot

A picture is truly worth a thousand words

Bob