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alright, if the original poster has already got the solution, then i'm posting this just in case somebody else comes along with the same question and finds it nearly un-answered, anyways, to just select a face you can use many different methods, and from what it sounds like to me is that the original poster's viewports might have been him accidently switching the views with the keypad, which is the clue to selecting a single face the hard way, you simply press 1 on the keypad for a front view, 7 on the keypad for a top perspective, and 3 for a side perspective, alternately you can hold down ctrl when pressing one of these for the opposite side, and you can always pivot around the object no matter what view you're in, perspective or not, using the keypad's 8 and 2 to pivot up and down, and 4 and 6 to pivot left and right around the object, now to select a face, you could go into edit mode, in the appropriate viewport, (if you want to select the top face, go into the front view, use b to bring up your box selection, and select the top 4 vertices), however, you can also go into a top view, go into edit mode and click on the little box just above the panels bar, almost all the way to the right that reads "Limit selection to visible" this way, when you're facing the object and select vertices, only those facing you will be selected, and the third and easiest way that i probably should have just left this off with, is to hit ctrl+tab while you are already in edit mode, and change your selection mode to faces, now, you can just right click on the face want, hope this helps somebody
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