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Object Handling 121
To create a group
1. Select all the objects you want in the group.
2. Right click and choose GROUP or choose GROUP from the ARRANGE menu (or
"Ctrl + G") to create the group.
Ungrouping objects
1. Select the group.
2. Right click and choose UNGROUP or choose UNGROUP from the ARRANGE menu
(or "Ctrl + U").
After this, all the individual objects in the group remain selected.
To add more objects to a group
1. Select the group.
2. Ungroup ("Ctrl + U")
3. Select the extra objects.
4. Group again ("Ctrl + G")
You can also incorporate a group into a second group by omitting step 2. Page &
Layout Designer remembers the original grouping information. If you ungroup the
objects later, the original group remains.
Removing objects from a group
1. Ungroup the objects.
2. "Shift + click" on the objects you want to remove. This deselects them; the
other objects remain selected.
You can then choose "
ARRANGE" > "GROUP" to regroup the remaining objects.
Selecting a single object from within a group
This feature is useful for changing an object's color, for example. "Ctrl + click" on the
object (you can also use this to select a "group within a group"). Pressing "Tab", or
"Shift + Tab" moves the selection within the group, to the next, or previous object.
Once you have selected an object inside a group, you can also use "Alt + click" to
select the object under the selected one.
This is called “select inside”.
Editing inside groups
If you want to edit the objects inside a group, there are broadly two ways to approach
this. You can either select the objects inside the group and work on them directly in
your document, or you can double click on the group to open its contents in a
separate document view.