Stumped by tool bar behavior

[Contours]

Success!

With Xara off, I located the width value and changed it 0 to 1. Upon restarting Xara, the text controls were back.

I'll skip any attempt to understand how it ever changed. I'm just relieved to be back on track.

Thanks to you both.

[handrawn]

good news

at the time the text tool infobar was first extended it was not at full length by default, that was changed soon after and the UI option egg mentioned was added in later version[s]

no idea why your ver 9 should suddenly change behaviour - unless maybe you reinstalled it and it does not have all the updates ?

[Contours]

unless maybe you reinstalled it

Interesting that you mention that. Indeed, I moved Xara and all my projects to a new PC at the first of this year. I thought I had everything set up the same, but this is something I probably missed. Even so, I don't recall ever having to set up the text tools. But it's nice to know there's a likely cause for this.

Thanks for pointing this out.