[Jenny Matthews]

The solution ended up being that my track was not selected. I had read about this somewhere but thought it was selected already. I was just clicking around and discovered that if you click on the track it highlights grey, and voila! it all works like I wanted. I knew it was something simple and dumb like this.

Thanks for your help!

[Jenny Matthews]

Thanks for the response!

Pushing T only opens the trim window for the highlighted edit, wherever that edit is, not for the edit the playhead is on. I am looking for a way to advance the edit which is highlighted one edit forward or backward, much like you can advance the playhead one edit forward or backward using the arrow keys. I hope that clarifies.