Can't move text widgets, no anchor tools!

Help! I’m currently following a tutorial from Unreal Sensei(How to create a game in Unity} where I have to create a “You Win” text widget and place it in the centre of the screen. It won’t let me move my widget, and the anchor tools I can see in Unreal Sensei’s video doesn’t show up on mine. I can’t get the UI working like this!

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Ensure the element you’re trying to manipulate is inside a Canvas Panel. Post a screenshot of the widget hierarchy if in doubt.

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Thank you! I don’t know why but my widget blueprint doesn’t automatically start with the Canvas Panel. I also had some problems making it work so I had to make a new blueprint from scratch. Now it’s working!

I ran into this exact same issue following the same tutorial: The Canvas Panel is missing when creating the “You won!” Widget Blueprint, but the first one (“Score”) worked just fine.

Step-by-step solution (since one was not given here) was to delete the text box, drag the Canvas Panel into the workspace, then add the Text Box.

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