Grouping and locking objects, Grouping and ungrouping objects – Apple Keynote '08 User Manual
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Chapter 4
Working with Sound, Movies, Graphics, and Other Objects
For shapes, you can set opacity for fill and stroke colors separately from object opacity. If
you move the Opacity slider in the Colors window to modify a fill or stroke color, that
opacity value becomes maximum object opacity. Then, when you change the object
opacity in the Graphic Inspector, you are changing it relative to the opacity you set in
the Colors window.
If you change an object's opacity and then can't restore the object's fill color to 100%, it
may be because the opacity was set to less than 100% in the Colors window. To fix it,
select the object, choose View > Show Colors, and then set the opacity in the Colors
window to 100%.
Grouping and Locking Objects
Group objects you want to keep together, and lock objects you don’t want to
inadvertently move.
Grouping and Ungrouping Objects
You can group objects together so that they can be moved, copied, resized, and
oriented as a single object. You can edit text associated with a shape or text object in a
group, but you can’t modify other attributes of individual objects in the group.
Grouped objects are built as one unit during object builds.
To group objects:
1
Hold down the Command (or Shift) key as you select the objects you want to group.
If you can’t select an object, it may be locked.
2
Choose Arrange > Group, or click Group in the toolbar.
To ungroup a grouped object, select the group, and then choose Arrange > Ungroup
or click Ungroup in the toolbar. If the group is locked, unlock it first.
If you group an object that has a build effect assigned to it, the effect is removed.
Ungrouping a grouped object with a build effect assigned to it also removes the build
effect.
This circle is set to 100% opacity in the
Graphic Inspector. The fill color was set
to 50% opacity in the Colors window.
The circle’s outline was set to 100%
opacity in the Colors window.
This circle is set to 100%
opacity in the Graphic
Inspector.
This circle is set to 50% opacity
in the Graphic Inspector.