Highlight the text and text blocks

Is it just me, or is this common, or worse, the new 'normal' for the Pages app.

All of a sudden I can't highlight a block of text. I can select 'ALL' the text 'A command' and delete everything, but I can't select (highlight) a character, a block of charters, or Word, or block of text. The cursor is where I tried to highlight, but the highlight fades.

I can of course delete by BACKSPACE, but I can't choose anything other than "all".

Also, I find not a typical preference Pages file to delete as a possible solution. The iWork.Pages.plist file I have find and remove apparently vandalized Pages so badly that I had to uninstall it completely and reinstall the Pages. The new version of re-installed Pages has exactly the same thing, so a relocation does not solve anything.

I also can't find anything in the preferences that seem to be the cause, and in any case, I made no changes to the preferences Pages before this problem occurred suddenly.

I hope that this isn't a feature that apple has built into the Pages.

Thoughts or suggestions?

Thank you.

What specific version of the Pages and OS X are you using?

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