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Group objects together

Move and manipulate objects as one object in the mural.

Differentiate between grouping and using areas
Group and ungroup objects in the mural

Why group objects?

When you add objects like icons, shapes, and text to a mural you can individually move and edit them. You can combine objects together to create unique designs and have the content act as one object. 

However, it’s important to note you won’t be able to edit the individual objects once you group them together. In these cases, you would want to use areas to keep objects together while still having the ability to individually edit objects.

Group objects in the mural

To group objects together:

  1. Select all the objects you want to group. We recommend the multi-select shortcuts, including:
  1. Hold SHIFT, click and drag your cursor over all the objects
  2. Hold Control or Command and click all of the objects
  1. A blue outline appears around the objects you select to group in the mural. Right-click to open the options menu. 
  2. In the menu select group. The blue outline will now appear around the entire group. You can also use the keyboard shortcut G to group objects.

To ungroup objects, right-click the group to option the options menu. Select ungroup from the menu.

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Hey there, I'm Hailey Temple. And I'm going to show you how to group and ungroup elements in a mural. This is really handy when you have lots of elements on a mural, and you want them to move around as a single unit, and you don't have to individually select them every time. So, here's what I'm going to do. First, I'm going to select all of the elements I want to group.

I do this by holding the Shift key on my keyboard, and then clicking and dragging my cursor to select all of these elements. I know I've selected all of them because they have this blue outline around them. And then there's this blue outline around everything. So, now I'm going to right click on the elements, and I get this pop up menu. I'm going to select group. What it's going to do is treat this now as one combined element, so all the sharks will move around together in the ocean. Now to ungroup these elements, I'm going to select the group, right click, and click ungroup. And, now they can swim independently again. So, one more time, multi select my sharks, right click, group and to ungroup simply right click again and click ungroup. That's it. Happy exploring in MURAL.