Creating an Object Group

After you have several objects on your template, it may be convenient for you to group certain ones together as an object group.

Grouping objects can be useful if you have spent some time positioning a set of objects relative to one another and then want to move them to another area of the template. After the objects are grouped, you can click any member of the group and move the entire group at once by dragging the group across the template to the location that you want without altering their positions relative to each other.

When objects are grouped, you can modify certain attributes or properties that are shared by the objects in the group all at once instead of updating the attribute or property for each individual object. For example, if some of the objects in a group are barcodes, the symbology or density for all of the barcodes in the group can be changed at the same time. For more information, refer to Modifying Properties for Multiple Selected Objects.

The Group command in the Arrange menu enables you to combine two or more objects on the template into a single group. After you do this, you can select the entire group by clicking any object in the group.

Using one of the following methods, select the objects that you want to include in the group:
- Click a blank area of the template and drag the pointer across the objects to be included in the group, until all objects are encompassed by the bounding box. Release the mouse button, and all the objects that are included in the bounding box will be selected. For more information, refer to Selecting Multiple Objects.
- Hold down the Shift or Ctrl key as you click each object that you want to include in the group.
On the Arrange menu, select Group. Alternatively, open the context menu for any of the selected objects, and then select Group from the Arrange context menu option.

Select the group that you want to break apart by clicking one of the objects in the group.
On the Arrange menu, select Ungroup.