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No matter what I do, I can't select the object.

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harooki2

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Aug 29, 2006
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If this is a double-post, I apologize. There was some glitch from Preview to Submit.

I'm building a booklet from a template. The template has some graphics in it that I can see but I can't find. Apparently, they're in a layer or master or something.

This is my first project, and the last tweak I must make is to replace these graphics. I've jumped through every hoop I can find, but I cannot select these objects. Any ideas?
 
It may be on a master page.

Window>Pages and you will see a divider. The master page is up there.

Alternatively you can (at the bottom of the document window) beside the Numbers Showing the Percent (the zoom of the document). There is a number showing your a page number. Hit the down arrow and you can see the Master Page in the list.

Now when in there you can change the images.

If this doesn't work there maybe another reason.
 
There is no Master.

Above the divider on the Pages palette, I have [None], A-Front/Back Cover, B-Layout 1, C-Layout 2, and D-Background Only. When I double-click on either of these, I do not see the graphics in question.

When I double-click on the appropriate page below the divider, I see the graphics. However, I'm unable to select them. I can select a text frame around them, but if I double-click within the text frame I get the cursor (as I should).

If I resize the text frame to uncover the graphic, there it is. However, I still cannot select it.
 
Call off the dogs. I found it. I knew I was doing something stupid.

Behind the text frame there was another frame. I had to move that second frame to uncover the graphic.

Thanks anyway.
 
Hold the Command key (on a Mac), bring the pointer of the mouse on top of the many text or image boxes and click. At each click, InDesign will cycle through each box. And you won't have to move anything that is on top of the box you want to select.
Sorry, english is not my mother tongue.
 
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