Hello David

You can control text display with the three rightmost toolbar buttons - "designators", "values" and "hide text".

VeeCAD selects text in preference to a component, and selects a small component in preference to a larger overlapping component. Mostly that lets you do everything by carefully choosing where you click with the mouse. Some programs show a pop-up menu so you can select from all the items that are under the mouse, but that is annoying.

If you move the mouse around while looking at the X,Y readout at the bottom left of the window, you will see fine movement within a cell is not actually changing the click X,Y. That can fool your perception of what you are clicking on.