SOS! Deadline looming and new to Storyline - can't edit a slide I made, everything greyed out, three weeks left of free trial

Hi Ruth,

Welcome to the E-Learning Heroes community! I appreciate your patience in conducting troubleshooting. 

There seems to be no object in the timeline; it's as if what I see in the slide is an image background, and there is no object available to work with. Can you confirm this? If I am mistaken, it would be helpful to see the Storyline file to understand why this is happening. Do you mind attaching your project to this discussion or privately in a support case?