in this lesson we're going to be talking
about a really great feature that
publisher offers and that is grouping
publisher allows you to group or combine
multiple objects into a single object
this often makes it a lot easier to work
with because you can flip or rotate or
even resize the objects in a group at
the same time you can even change the
color of all the objects at the same
time when they're grouped together for
example in this template in our
newsletter publisher has grouped
together all of these handprints and we
can see that these are grouped together
because we see the open circles that are
around all of the handprints we can also
see the ungroup icon that has appeared
under our grouping this means that we
can move our grouped object all around
the page all at the same time we can
even resize our object all of those
together at the same time you can see
how this really makes it a lot easier to
work with
now let's take a look at how you can
group objects together for yourself
let's say that we want to group together
these handprints as well as the title of
our newsletter hold down your Shift key
and as you hold it down click on the
handprints and click on the title
anything that you click on at this point
will stay selected and while the Shift
key is still down you can click on your
group icon that appears under these
objects now we have a group that
contains all of our handprints as well
as the title of our newsletter now we
can move this group around on the page
altogether
we can also resize this group together
you can see how this would make creating
a newsletter so much easier publisher
gives us alternate ways to group items
together let's look at page 2 of our
newsletter on this page I would like to
group all of the objects together that
are in the top section on this page also
I would like to group all of the objects
together that on the bottom section of
this page in order to do that we can
also go over to our objects toolbar and
click on the select objects icon we're
going to come back to our newsletter
we're going to click down with our mouse
and we're going to hold it as we drag
this around to select all of those
objects in the top section of this page
we're going to release the mouse as you
can see there are many many objects in
that top section and they're all
selected right now and we're going to
group those together by clicking on our
group objects icon right in the middle
of the page now we have one big group
that is our top section and we're going
to come down and we're going to do the
same thing with the bottom section I'm
going to click down with our mouse we're
going to drag our cursor to include all
of the objects in the bottom section now
we're going to release that mouse and
you'll see all of the objects in the
bottom section are selected we're going
to group those by clicking on the group
objects icon at the bottom of the page
we now have two big groups on this page
and we can interchange these sections
you'll grab this one and move it to the
top and we can grab this one and move it
to the bottom then we can straighten
these out a little bit
you can see that we've exchanged the
sections of our newsletter at some time
you may need to ungroup objects so that
you can work with them individually
let's go back to page 1 and ungroup our
hand prints and our newsletter title
let's select the hand prints and
newsletter that's one group we know that
because we can see the open circles all
around and we simply will click on the
ungroup icon that is under the object
and that will ungroup our two objects
there now individual objects once again
so now that you've learned how to group
and ungroup objects and you've seen the
benefits of this feature go ahead and
feel free to try this on your own