Tag Tool has a red circle with line thru it - won't work

I’m going thru the video series in sketchup school on importing and working with CAD files.
I’m seeing the pencil is not shown as assigned to untagged, there is no pencil icon. Secondly following along the video series of creating a tag and using it to assign to all untagged, the tool is inoperable. I’ve had this same issue when trying to use in general.
Can’t find any topic that helps me resolve this/understand what’s going on.
Thanks

Try these:
Tags, Square One
Tags, Skill Builder

you need to select a group or component before you can tag it, I was having the same problem. about the pencil I don’t know

That’s not correct. Choose the Tag tool and highlight a tag in the Tags panel. Then click on components in the model space.

Here I’ve turned off the selected tag so the components disappear as Itag them.
tagtool

The red circle with the slash through it shows if you try to give locked objects a tag with the tool. Unlocking the objects will solve that problem.

Thank you, it seemed that was how I solved the problem. I can tag using entity info.
But how are they locked in the first place?

It would take right clicking on them and choosing Lock from the Context menu. If you didn’t lock the object intentionally maybe you meant to hit Hide and missed.

Ah ok thank you so much, I will pay attention to it.

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