new information: the top left most three dots on the home page representing the first row on the page disappear as I bring the cursor up to click on them to open up the attributes for the row ... i can click on all other rows, inner rows, columns, inner columns on the page
when editing the home page the header and footer are present, the three dots of the first row are up in the header space, is it possible that the header is interfering with being able to click on those dots to open the element style? can i disable the header and edit just the home page by itself?