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Grouping shapes together

It is often convenient to group shapes together so that they are treated

as a single shape by Impress. A group of shapes can be formatted as if

it was a single shape, moved, rotated, deleted and so on. To group

shapes together, do as follows:

1) Select the shapes to be grouped. To do this, use the selection tool

on the drawing toolbar and draw a rectangle around the shapes to

be grouped, or click on each shape to be added to the group while

pressing the

Shift

key.

2) When the green resizing handles show, select Format > Group >

Group or press

Control+Shift+G

on the keyboard.

Once the group is defined, click on any of the shapes in the group to

select the group. To edit only the elements of the group, press

when

the group is selected or select Format > Group > Enter group from

the menu bar. Notice that the elements not part of the group are

grayed out and that only the shapes belonging to the group can be

edited. Use this function when you need to apply a particular format to

a single member of the group. To exit from group mode, press

Control+F3

or select Format > Group > Exit group from the menu

bar.

For more about working with grouped objects, see Chapter 5

(Combining Multiple Objects) in the

Draw Guide

To ungroup objects:

1) Select the group of shapes.

2) When the green resizing handles show, select Edit > Format >

Group > Ungroup from the menu bar.

Tip

If you use the grouping and ungrouping often, why not add them

to one of the toolbars shown by default so that the commands

are readily available? To do so, you will need to customize the

selected toolbar. See Chapter 12 of the

Getting Started

guide.

Arranging shapes

Arrange determines the stacking order of the selected object. Impress

organizes objects in a stack so that the objects on a high level of the

stack cover the objects on lower levels if overlapping occurs. To modify

the position of an object in the stack, click the small triangle on the

side of the

Arrange

icon to open the extended toolbar (Figure 77). The

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