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Selecting inside
If you hold down Ctrl and click on an object in the Selector tool, that object will be
selected even if it’s inside one or more groups. That’s called a "select inside"
operation. Also some tools will let you directly select objects relevant to them inside
groups, just by clicking on them. For example in the Photo Tool you can just click on a
photo to select it, even if it’s in a group.
Editing group contents
If you want to edit several objects inside a group, it can get tedious having to keep
Ctrl+clicking on each one first. So instead you can instantly open the group’s contents
in a separate sub-document view, to make editing much easier.
Double click on a group and a new document view opens (or right click on it and
choose Open from the context menu). It contains only the contents of the group and
not the group itself, so you can select all the direct children of the group just by
clicking on them. You can also draw new objects and these will be added to the group
when you save your changes back. Since the sub-document contains only the
contents of the group, you won’t see the effects of any group attributes in the sub-
document view.
Once you’re done editing the group, hit "Ctrl + S" to instantly close the sub-document
view and save your changes back to the parent document. Or you can close the view
using the close button in the top right of the window, just as you close ordinary
documents, and you’ll be prompted to save or discard any changes you’ve made.
If the group you are editing contains other groups (because the parent document had
multiple levels of nested groups) you can double-click on them to open those in a
sub-document too.
Repeating Objects
You can edit inside a Repeating Object just as if it was a normal group – just double
click it to open in a sub-document view. As with all edits made to the objects inside a
Repeating Object, when you save the changes back, all copies will be updated.
Molds
You can edit the contents of a mold, which is something that is not possible using
direct selection inside (molds do not allow objects inside them to become selected).
Right click on the mold and choose
OPEN MOLD from the context menu.
Limitations
Groups cannot contain layers and so if you introduce any layers while editing a group,
those layers will be ‘flattened’ when you save the changes back to the parent
document. In other words all the objects will be moved to the original single layer on
save and any layer structure you introduced lost.