Selected Text - highlight color is invisible

[Ethan_Clauset@adobeforums.com]

I'm having some trouble with Illustrator 10 .. the document in question has a white background and black text. Normally when I select text with the text tool, the area selected is indicated by a black highlight, within which the selected text is reversed to white. Currently when I select text there is no change.. the text remains black and the boundaries of the selected area are invisible. I can't figure out if there's a way to change the selected text highlight color.. I tried doing it at the system level but that didn't change anything. Any suggestions? This seems to only be affecting one document.

[Dee Holmes]

Can you move the text? Is it locked perhaps? If not try copying and pasting into a new document.

[Ethan_Clauset@adobeforums.com]

It's not locked, and I can edit it, I just can't see what's selected. I finally did just copy and paste everything into a new document and that seemed to fix it. Maybe there was something in the text (copied from a powerpoint file) that was causing the problem?

[Dee Holmes]

I don't know, I couldn't reproduce it here. But I'm using AI9 on my PC right now. I can try tomorrow with AI10.

[Ethan_Clauset@adobeforums.com]

Figured it out.. in almost every other application I use, command-h hides the application, but in Illustrator it's "Hide Edges" under the View menu.

[Unregistered]

Thanks! I was having the same problem. CTLR+H hide guide lines in photoshop. :P It sucks.. lol