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  40 <topic id="textsdrawguidegroupsxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
  41 <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Grouping Objects</title>
  42 <filename>/text/sdraw/guide/groups.xhp</filename>
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  45 <body>
  46 <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150793"><bookmark_value>grouping; draw objects</bookmark_value>
  47 <bookmark_value>draw objects; grouping</bookmark_value>
  48 </bookmark><comment>mw delelted "groups;entering" and copied "selecting;group objects" to the new shared guide groups.xhp.</comment><paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150793" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="26"><variable id="groups"><link href="text/sdraw/guide/groups.xhp" name="Grouping Objects">Grouping Objects</link>
  49 </variable></paragraph>
  50 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153728" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">You can combine several objects into a group so that they act as a single object. You can move and transform all objects in a group as a single unit. You can also change the properties (for example, line size, fill color) of all objects in a group as a whole or for individual objects in a group. Groups can be temporary or assigned:</paragraph>
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  53 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3147434" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="64">Temporary - group only lasts as long as all of the combined objects are selected.</paragraph>
  54 </listitem>
  55 <listitem>
  56 <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3154490" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="65">Assigned - group lasts until it is ungrouped through a menu command.</paragraph>
  57 </listitem>
  58 </list>
  59 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145252" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="66">Groups can also be grouped in other groups. Actions applied to a group do not affect the relative position of the individual objects to each other in the group.</paragraph>
  60 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150716" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="28">To group objects:</paragraph>
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  64 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149018" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="E">
  65 <image id="img_id3145643" src="res/commandimagelist/sc_formatgroup.png" width="0.1665inch" height="0.1665inch"><alt id="alt_id3145643" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt>
  66         </image></paragraph>
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  68 <tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
  69 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147346" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="29">Select the objects you want to group and choose <emph>Modify - Group</emph>.</paragraph>
  70 </tablecell>
  71 </tablerow>
  72 </table>
  73 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148485" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="30">For example, you can group all of the objects in a company logo to move and resize the logo as a single object.</paragraph>
  74 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147002" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="31">After you have grouped objects, selecting any part of the group selects the entire group.</paragraph>
  75 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150205" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="55">Selecting Objects in a Group</paragraph>
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  78 <tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
  79 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150370" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="E">
  80 <image id="img_id3155376" src="res/commandimagelist/sc_entergroup.png" width="0.1665inch" height="0.1665inch"><alt id="alt_id3155376" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt>
  81         </image></paragraph>
  82 </tablecell>
  83 <tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
  84 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156450" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="56">You can select single objects in a group by entering the group. Double-click a group to enter it and click on the object to select it. You can also add or delete objects to and from a group in this mode. The objects that are not part of the group are grayed out.</paragraph>
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  90 <tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
  91 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151239" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="E">
  92 <image id="img_id3155264" src="res/commandimagelist/sc_leavegroup.png" width="0.1665inch" height="0.1665inch"><alt id="alt_id3155264" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt>
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  94 </tablecell>
  95 <tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
  96 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150213" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="58">To exit a group, double-click anywhere outside it.</paragraph>
  97 </tablecell>
  98 </tablerow>
  99 </table>
 100 <section id="relatedtopics">
 101 <embed href="text/simpress/guide/select_object.xhp#select_object"/>
 102 <embed href="text/sdraw/guide/combine_etc.xhp#combine_etc"/>
 103 </section>
 104 </body>
 105 </helpdocument>