I cannot select a face through the bottom plane

[sladeroJY5L5]

I am doing this tutorial: https://youtu.be/36uU1Z7OiJg?t=584

I created a pyramid, shelled it out, and from the bottom, I need to select the interior faces to create midline planes. However, when I attempt to select the individual faces - the entire bottom of the pyramid gets selected. It is as if I cannot select the faces which are above the XY plane.

The funny thing is that I created a hole in once face as I followed the tutorial, and I can select two of the interior faces from a view above the bottom plane looking in through the hole.

Thoughts?

[jeff_strater]

need more info, preferably the model and a screencast of what you are trying to do.  It's just a little hard to tell from your description what problems you are having.

[jhackney1972]

I used a similar model to the one on YouTube to demonstrate the process of selection the interior face(s).  Take a look at the Screencast.  You can use the outside faces to achieve the same Midplane since the geometry is the same, I demonstrated this as well.

[sladeroJY5L5]

Thank you- that is so helpful- it is strange that in the video tutorial the guy was able to select the faces no problem- it must just be that I am using a later version- 

thanks again- your solution worked great.

[RonSargeant]

Have you tried the face selection method of holding left mouse down over the face location? This should list all of the faces, profiles, edges, etc under the mouse point; you can then scroll the list to confirm and pick the face you want. If you do it with Shift, you can select more than one face this way.