Newbie needs help, cutting text in a logo overlay

I'm a video editor working with Production Premium CS5, until CS6 is available in any case. Production Premium includes Illustrator, which I never had the opportunity to use so far.

Problem is that customer wants to build a bug video logo - logo transparent diffuser that lives in the lower right corner of the evening news of broadcasting - you know probably what I'm talking about. Any customer has is a version of their logo (fortunately large enough) raster. The customer claims to not be able to find the artist and cannot provide any more, so no vectors, without diapers, nothing useful.

The logo contains a type. Some letters touch and others overlap. When I'm Illustrator up all of this, I had groups of several letters that was not unexpected. I need to cut these letters apart and rebuild the damaged edges so that I can run these letters with a font identifier. I hope that I can identify the font, buy it and use some other letters in the logo bug.

This is my situation.

My problem is by cutting the letters apart. For example, the word "food", where the second "o" and the "d" overlap. Here the anchor points are "changing the anchor points of direction." When I use the scissors tool, I click on turn two anchor points and click. I was expecting when I did what the "d" would become a path separate from the 'ood' path it is now. But this does not happen. The path does not change visibly. When I use the direct Selection tool and click on the "d", the path is clearly still "ood" and when I try to move the "d" all three letters move. So I have not actually cut the 'd' at the end. Yet.

That said, when I use this same technique to cut the path on the ascending g-d, it separates well and I can move the upper part of the stem off the coast of the "d" with no problems. So I think it has something to do with the Cup to the anchor points. But obviously, IDK.

What I am doing wrong? Or what other actions I do to separate the letters and make them independent? Or I do how completely wrong?

I know, I know, I'm such a newbie. But I have never had a client ask something like this before, so to Illustrator I * am * a newbie. What is life without learning curves?

--

Bruce Watson

Object > ungroup

Or

Object > interested path > Release

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