Anyway, the most useful tip/hint/cheat is probably the bonus one.

A bit counterintuitive, but effective. I guess that’s a combination of “tricks” #1 and #3. I must have figured this out before, but I didn’t really understand what I was doing or why it worked; I think I do now.

It looks look I could also switch to the Text tool (press “T” or click in the toolbar) after selecting with ctrl-click using the Selection tool, then click again.

But doing as you suggested is easier, because if I’m just going through the document to select various text for editing, I could select any text using this method (with the Type tool) without ever having to actually switch to the Selection tool.

Start with the Type tool, hold command/control, click until you see that you have the frame you want (control handles and text ports will be visible), release command/control, and click. Your cursor will be in the frame you want and you can start editing text.

The other thing you could do drag over the stack with the Selection tool and press command/control+y to open the Story Editor. If there were other stories in the stack, they would open additional story windows.

Question about #3: After using Ctrl-click to select a text frame that is underneath other frames, how do I then select inside that same frame for editing?

Actually, I just want to know the best way of selecting inside a text frame for editing, when that frame is underneath other frames. So if there is a way of doing this without first selecting it with Ctrl-click with the selection tool, that’s good, too.