PowerPoint has various user-friendly features that allow users to craft compelling presentations quickly. Grouping, ungrouping, and regrouping are some of those excellent features. Grouping images or shapes in PowerPoint enables the users to move multiple elements at once. Whereas ungrouping lets the users break the grouped object back into individual things, and regrouping is reconstituting the original group without selecting all particular slide objects all over again. To use these features appropriately, we have brought you a step-by-step tutorial.
Here we go!
Grouping Elements
Step 1: Open your PowerPoint presentation.
Step 2: Go to the slide where multiple objects exist, and you want to group them. (Remember that grouping objects in different slides is not possible)
Step 3: Hold Ctrl in Windows and Cmd in Mac and select the elements one by one you want to group.
Step 4: Go to the Shape Format Tab or Picture Format Tab according to the type of elements your slide includes. If you are not using Office 365, these tabs refer to Format under the Drawing Tools or Picture Tools.
Step 5: Click Group > Group in the Arrange group. Alternatively, you can group the elements by right-clicking the selected objects and selecting Group > Group.
Ungrouping Elements
Step 1: Open your presentation.
Step 2: Go to the slide with various elements you want to ungroup. Go to the Shape Format Tab or Picture Format Tab according to the type of objects that make up the group. If you are not using Office 365, these tabs refer to Format under the Drawing Tools or Picture Tools.
Step 3: Click Group > Ungroup in the Arrange group.
Alternatively, you can ungroup the elements by right-clicking the selected objects and selecting Group > Ungroup.
Regrouping Elements
Step 1: Go to the slide with the elements you want to regroup.
Step 2: Select any of the elements. No need to select them all. Then go to the Shape Format Tab or Picture Format Tab according to the type of objects. If you are not using Office 365, these tabs refer to Format under the Drawing Tools or Picture Tools.
Step 3: Click Group > Regroup in the Arrange group.
Alternatively, you can ungroup the elements by right-clicking the selected object and selecting Group > Regroup.
And it’s a wrap! Using these super easy tips, you can save time and group, ungroup, and regroup the elements as needed.
