I just managed to solve it.

I used the "unlock all" function in the "object" menu.

I'm not sure how the text managed stay locked and can't be unlocked when I unlocked the layer.

Thanks for your replies. Hope this will help others who may have the same problem.

Yes, I've tried double-clicking it.

It seems like the text has locked itself even though I unlocked the layer.

I really need to fix this, cause it's my only copy of the file I'm working on

Hi everyone, thanks in advance if you can help me with this problem. I'm a fairly new user of inkscape. A chunk of text has become unselectable when I was using Inkscape. It's not invisible. I can see it and even hide it when hiding the layer. But I just can't select or edit it anymore. I've not loc...