Adobe 65024500 - InDesign CS4 User Manual page 18

Frequently, you will have many images, graphics, and
It can be very beneficial to connect several of these together once they are positioned
correctly so that you can move all of them at once and maintain the relational distance
between each of them. This function is called Grouping.
To Group two or more objects, do the following:
1. Select all of the objects that you want to
ways (both using the
• Hold down the
• Starting in an empty space on the page, click and hold the mouse
and drag it outward creating a "ghost box" around all of the objects
you want to select. When you release the mouse all of the items
within the box should be selected (Fig. 22).
2. Click Object > Group
3. If you click over the newly grouped objects with the pointer tool you will notice
that they are bound together as one large object.
4. To ungroup these objects, click on the grouped objects and hit
Ungroup.
Fig. 22 Left image shows objects not grouped. Right image objects grouped.
Group
Pointer Tool):
Shift key and click on each object individually, or,
(Fig. 23).
Fig. 23 Navigation to Group or Ungroup Objects
Elements on the screen at once.
together. This can be done in two
Object >
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