Edit Area Blank Fairly Often

Hi,

I'm noticing fairly often that the editing area is showing blank/empty when seemingly it should be showing the container data.

Consider this picture:

Container A, starting at m25 is selected.

The timeline in the edit area reflects that, but no Figure data is shown.

From this situation, I just keep "futzing around" and somehow, eventually, I wind up seeing data again.   

Q1.   Is there a specific reliable way (steps to perform) to get the data back?

Q2.   Could this be fixed so as not to occur?       

If user error seems to be the case, please advise.

Thanks!