How to change Adobe Stock Invitation card template text in Adobe Illustrator?

Question

I licensed the template "Invitation card - black and gold vintage style" in Adobe Stock, and opened it in Adobe Illustrator. I am trying to change:

• the text "Invitation"
• the text "Sample text here"
• the text "Place your text here"

View of the template at the start:

My attempt:

1. In Layers, activated the wanted object only to be edited, not locked
2. selecting Type tool and pressing CTRL, I got:

but double clicking does not allow to change the text.

Target: change "INVITATION" to "KUTSU", meaning invitation in Finnish.

AI version: latest
OS: Windows 11, latest

Answer 1

The text has been converted to outlines.

All you can do is delete it and retype whatever you want.

You can't easily change what's existing - it's a collection of nodes and paths which looks like text, but it is not "live" text you can change.