This is very useful when you create a drawing made up of several individual components. First you have to select all of the objects to group. You will see handles appear around the objects as you select them. Two shortcut selection methods efficiently group most or all of the objects on the slide. Or, choose EDIT, Select All to select every object on the screen.
Selected objects can also be ungrouped and regrouped.
Earlier you learned how to crop an object to display part of it. Similarly, you can ungroup clip art objects to use or modify just a portion of them, and this method does not limit you in your selection. To illustrate this, the multi-colored Screen Bean below was ungrouped and the fill color was changed for each individual object. Before you ungroup an image, you may need to convert it to a Microsoft Office drawing object. You are prompted to do this when it is necessary.