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Grouping and ungrouping objects
The Shadow and Transparency Tools offer different results depending on whether objects are grouped
or not. For more information see "Transparency" and "Shadows
".
You will often create complex shapes from several different objects. The "Arrange" > "Group" menu
option (or right click selected objects and choose Group
) lets you lock those objects together to form what appears as a single object. You can then select the
grouped objects and copy, rescale, move or perform any other operation on the entire group.
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. Web Designer Premium
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".
Groups and layers
There's more about layers in Layers
.
If all the objects to be grouped are in one layer, the group is created in that layer. The group is at the
level of the highest member of the group, i.e. the group does not automatically become the front object.
If the objects are in more than one layer, then the group is created in the layer containing the object
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