Reply To: Disappearing Text. Help! Only three days before we go to press!

It sounds like you have set Text Wrap to be on by default, for all new objects.

If so, it's fixed real easy:

1. Make sure you have nothing at all selected. Using the black arrow, click outside all objects (the control panel should go grey). You can also select “Deselect All” in the Edit menu.

2. Call up your Text Wrap panel.

3. I bet in the top row some other icon than the first one is selected. Select the leftmost (“No text wrap”) icon.

4. It ought to be fixed now.

This does not effect the objects you already created, but at least it ensures you don't add any new ones.