I cannot see text frames and I cannot visibly see what I have tried to select on a document I saved a week ago (I've been out of town, I don't think it has been touched)

[Jill Wolcott]

There is no text frame to allow me to move and when I want to edit a word I cannot select the word.  i can apply styles, but cannot see what I am applying it to (and generally have to do it word by word).  I am on Mac Catalina on a Desktop.

I'm attaching a screen shot of a page in my document.  I have show margins (basically everything but baselines is supposed to show) and I can't see anything.  I need to shorten a text box which is now going over my footer, and I have no way to do that.  I cannot move my tables (or edit them).  Something is very wrong.  It is 6:30 pm my time.  I rebooted my computer after a week away today.  I will reboot it again now, but seriously, this is way off.

Edited June 30, 2022 by Jill Wolcott
Adding screen shot; additional information

[firstdefence]

Check to make sure you are in the right Persona, it should be the red/orange icon, I'm on Catalina and unfortunately I can't reproduce your issue, would you mind uploading the file?

You also have a typo on suggested 

[GarryP]

Jill Wolcott: Full-screen screenshots are usually much more informative than partial-screen-grabs as we can see more of the problem. (Let us open the patient up rather than having to do keyhole surgery.)

[Jill Wolcott]

Thanks for the note on full screen shots.  It is working today, and I don't believe it was the persona because I had the proper tool box.  Thanks also for the typo catch!

[thomaso]

10 hours ago, Jill Wolcott said:

It is working today, and I don't believe it was the persona because I had the proper tool box.

Just a side note: Visually your screenshot looks like the space key was pressed on your keyboard. This allows to select objects / text frames in the Layers panel and to assign text styles but would not prevent you from editing text but rather write blank space characters once a text frame got entered (e.g. via double-click).

[Jill Wolcott]

I’ll explore that! I figured I had inadvertently done something—i’d like not to repeat it! Thanks so much.