can’t see bounding boxes or pan behind tool

[Joey Foreman]

Icon at Top Right of Composition window.
View Options
Layer Controls
Handles

[Joey Burnham]

thank you kind sir! I’m working at somebody else’s desk and they had this turned off. Never had to change it before.
Joey

[Todd Kopriva]

There are also shortcuts:

“# To choose which layer controls to show in a view, choose View > View Options, or press Ctrl+Alt+U (Windows) or Command+Option+U (Mac OS).
# To show or hide layer controls in a view, choose View > Show Layer Controls, or press Ctrl+Shift+H (Windows) or Command+Shift+H (Mac OS). This command also shows or hides the 3D reference axes.”

from “Show or hide layer controls in the Composition panel”

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[Ryan Mcgahan]

Thank you. I was having the same problem on one of the computers at my school.