Ok guys, I have searched, looked at every Bad Dog you tube videos he has, and can not find the answer to this issue, soooo if someone could point me in the right direction i would be grateful!!!
In this first screen shot is a pic on the right that i drew over. I did it in different colors as a stroke then filled it in and removed the stoke.
then is the second screen shot i changed the view to outline so i could see it better to fix all the nodes, bridge the letters…
for some reason i can not bridge the letters.
If i change the view back to normal to get all my colors back i get a black box. I have tried page up & down.
Right now everything is back to ungrouped.
I have no idea what to do at this point! 
