how to enable noun verb selection

[ernie-pook]

Installed AutoCAD LT for Mac 2026 on a new computer.
Can't figure out how to enable noun verb selection.

PICKADD is set to 2 and PICKFIRST to 1.

On older versions [Windows?] there used to be a radio button in PREFERENCES on the selection tab, Noun Verb Selection.  Not seen now [see attached].

I closed the program and restarted the computer in case that might help the above settings to "take".
Another post I saw here suggested updating the software.
I tried Check for Updates under AutoCAD LT 2026 in the menu top bar and that led nowhere, didn't bring up a dialog or anything.

I looked on the Autodesk site and saw some updates for AutoCAD LT 2026 64-bit -- don't think that is for Mac.  Didn't see any on the list with "Mac" in the name.

It is product version W.60.M.211.
Maybe no updates are available yet?

I also have a Mac Book Pro laptop running AutoCAD LT for Mac 2025.  Noun verb selection does work there.  I recall that I had to fix it upon installation [migrated from 2022 version] but can't remember what I did or find any notes I may have made at the time.  After the fix it has never quit working.  PICKADD, PICKFIRST and the PREFERENCES selection tab are the same as above.  It is product version V.58.M.244.

A bit perplexing!  
A "got to have it" setting!

[ernie-pook]

An update.  I was determined to get past this bugaboo.

Sometimes when something is going wrong I get obsessed about it until I can fix it.
Drilling down into some help files, some not specific to this LT/Mac version -- one suggestion I found, if noun verb selection really can't be invoked, it is possible that the file is corrupted.  And you can try selecting all of the objects and pasting them into a new file.
And that worked!!

I don't know how or why the file became corrupted [if it did].  There were no other signs anything was wrong.
It is one that has been around awhile and was started on Windows AutoCAD LT three years ago or more.

Still interested if anybody has any related insights.