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You can also incorporate a group into a second group by omitting step 2. Designer Pro
remembers the original grouping information. If you ungroup the objects later, the original
group remains.

Removing objects from a group
1. Ungroup the objects.
2. "Shift + click" on the objects you want to remove. This deselects them; the other
objects remain selected.

You can then choose "ARRANGE" > "GROUP" to regroup the remaining objects.
Selecting a single object from within a group
This feature called SELECT INSIDE, is useful for changing an object's color, for example.
"Ctrl + click" on the object (you can also use this to select a "group within a group").
Pressing "Tab", or "Shift + Tab" moves the selection within the group, to the next, or
previous object. Once you have selected an object inside a group, you can also use "Alt
+ click" to select the object under the selected one.

Editing inside groups

If you want to edit the objects inside a group, there are broadly two ways to approach
this. You can either select the objects inside the group and work on them directly in your
document, or you can double click on the group to open its contents in a separate
document view.
Selecting inside

If you hold down Ctrl and click on an object in the Selector tool, that object will be
selected even if it’s inside one or more groups. That’s called a "select inside" operation.
Also some tools will let you directly select objects relevant to them inside groups, just by
clicking on them. For example in the Photo Tool you can just click on a photo to select it,
even if it’s in a group.

It is just as easy to replace symbols as which are part of a group as well, either with a
replacement symbol or an image, just right-click on the symbol and select REPLACE from
the context menu.

Editing group contents
If you want to edit several objects inside a group, it can get tedious having to keep
Ctrl+clicking on each one first. So instead you can instantly open the group’s contents in
a separate sub-document view, to make editing much easier.

Double click on a group and a new document view opens (or right click on it and choose
Open from the context menu). It contains only the contents of the group and not the
group itself, so you can select all the direct children of the group just by clicking on them.
You can also draw new objects and these will be added to the group when you save your