User Guide

Chapter 5188
To ungroup a selected group:
Choose Modify > Ungroup.
To automatically return objects to their original layers when ungrouping:
1 Choose Edit > Preferences. Click General.
2 Select Remember Layer Info and click OK.
Selecting grouped objects
You can work with individual objects within a group by subselecting only the
objects you want to modify. You can also remove one or more objects from a
group. You cannot move individual objects within a group to other layers or group
them with other groups.
Group (left); selecting object within group (right)
To select an object within a group:
1 Do one of the following:
• Select the Subselect tool and click the object to select it.
• With the Pointer tool selected, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option
(Macintosh) and click the object to select it.
2 To add objects to the subselection, press Shift as you subselect. You can select
up to eight nested levels.
To select an object behind another object in a group:
1 Select the Pointer tool.
2 Do one of the following:
• In Windows, hold down Control+ Alt and right-click to cycle through
selected objects.
• On the Macintosh, hold down Control+Option (Macintosh) and click to cycle
through selected objects.