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When the Item tool is selected, you can remove items with the Delete
command. Deleted items are not copied to the Clipboard.
Controlling the stacking order of items
When two or more items overlap, each is either positioned in front of or behind
the other item. The term “stacking order” refers to the front-to-back relationship
of the various items on a page. Each item you create occupies its own level in
the stacking order. Every new item you create becomes the front item.
The Item menu includes commands that let you control item stacking order.
Choose Item > Send to Back to move an item to the back of the page or layer. ●
Choose Item > Bring to Front to move an item to the front of the page or ●
layer.
To move an item one level backward in the page or layer choose Item > Send ●
Backward.
To move an item one level forward in the page or layer choose Item > Bring ●
Forward.
In a document with layers, the layers themselves are in a particular stacking 
order; within each layer, each item has its own relationship to the stacking
order. When you use the Send to Back, Send Backward, Bring to Front, and
Bring Forward commands (Item menu), the stacking order of the items is
altered within the layer.
To activate an item that is hidden behind other items, select the Item tool 
and press Command+Option+Shift/Ctrl+Alt+Shift while you click repeatedly
at the point where multiple items overlap. Pressing
Command+Option+Shift/Ctrl+Alt+Shift while clicking will successively
activate items from the front of the stacking order to the back.
Grouping items
You can combine multiple items on a page or spread into a single group.
Grouping items is useful when you want to select or move several items
simultaneously. You can move, cut, copy, duplicate, and perform a number of
other functions on a group. For example, you can group all the items that
compose a publication masthead; once grouped, you can modify or move the
entire group as you would a single box, line, or text path.
After you create a group, you can still edit, resize, and reposition individual items
while maintaining the group relationship. You can also place a copy of a group
into an open QuarkXPress library for use in other documents.
Items can be grouped when two or more items (lines, boxes, text paths, or other
groups) are active. To select multiple items with the Item tool , either