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100 Object Handling

changes back. Since the sub-document contains only the contents of the group, you
won’t see the effects of any group attributes in the sub-document view.

Once you’re done editing the group, hit "Ctrl + S" to instantly close the sub-document
view and save your changes back to the parent document. Or you can close the view
using the close button in the top right of the window, just as you close ordinary
documents, and you’ll be prompted to save or discard any changes you’ve made.

If the group you are editing contains other groups (because the parent document had
multiple levels of nested groups) you can double-click on them to open those in a sub-
document too.
Live Copies & Repeating Objects

You can edit inside a Live Copy just as if it was a normal group – just double click it to
open in a sub-document view. As with all edits made to the objects inside a Live Copy,
when you save the changes back, all copies of that Live Copy will be updated. And
similarly you can edit a repeating object the same way.
Molds

You can edit the contents of a mold, which is something that is not possible using direct
selection inside (molds do not allow objects inside them to become selected). Right click
on the mold and choose OPEN MOLD from the context menu.

Limitations
Groups cannot contain layers and so if you introduce any layers while editing a group,
those layers will be ‘flattened’ when you save the changes back to the parent document.
In other words all the objects will be moved to the original single layer on save and any
layer structure you introduced lost.
Similarly a group can’t contain multiple pages and so any pages you add while editing
will be ignored and lost when you save back – only the first page is relevant.
The Automatic Backup facility does not save modifications to open sub-documents. Only
the parent main document is saved when a scheduled backup runs, in its current state
without the unsaved group edits. For this reason it’s recommended that you save group
edits back to the parent document regularly.

If you close the program or shutdown Windows while you have group sub-documents
open with unsaved changes, when you next start the program, the main document will be
loaded and it will include all the group edits that were unsaved at the time of closure.