Nu-be needs to chat with experienced Quartus user

The issue I was having mysteriously cleared itself up. In the block editor, I selected a part such as the lpm_shiftreg. That then automatically opens the editor for that part. One of the first adjustable fields is the 'width' of the register. If I left that at 8, it instantiated properly and I could connect nodes to it just fine. If I changed the width to '10', when it instantiated, there were no connections on the outline of the part. I had this problem for the entire first day of use. After shutting down my system and rebooting on the next day, everything worked fine! From then on I have had no problems.