How to Group or Ungroup Objects, Shapes, Pictures and Texts in a Word Document

One of the most useful and practical tools that the Microsoft Word program has, is the one that allows grouping and ungrouping all kinds of elements. In this way, if you are working on a project and you need to put together a group of photos, text boxes, shapes or texts on top of an image or photo, in just one, you can do it in order to manipulate the entire selected set in one single direction.

Likewise, you can also save all elements as if it were just one in order to execute them later other types of office software. On the other hand, if you change your mind, there is also the option to ungroup so that you can re-manipulate each element on your own or modify it.

For all these reasons, we have brought you this simple tutorial where you will learn how to group and ungroup objects, shapes or images very quickly and efficiently, in any of the Word versions and in a matter of very few minutes of your time.

Instructions for grouping various items in Word

The first thing we have to mention to you is that this procedure can be carried out without problem in all versions of the Word program, however, we recommend that you install the new Office 2013 package that brings better innovations in all functionalities and tools.

That said, you need to open a new document in the program and place all the elements you want individually, if what you want is to add images, you can access the Insert option located at the top of the tool panel. On the other hand, if what you need is to group shapes, you will have to draw them first from the same Insert shapes option.

The second thing you have to do is place all the images of the same size or the shapes you want to group, so that everything look much more organized and the procedure is easier to carry out.

Subsequently, you will select all the objects present there and click on the alternative that says Format to proceed to select the Group option, When the drop-down menu appears, you must click the group button once more.

That is the whole procedure, once done, all your elements will be properly grouped and will be combined into a single file, which you can export or save in the format you want. It should be noted that the elements that have the format of In line with the text cannot be grouped, so you will have to change the options for others that are available.

How to group objects, shapes and images from the online version of Word

If you still do not know the web version of the Word program, we invite you to try it promptly, since here you can create all kinds of documents and save them over the Internet, which translates into greater storage capacity for your files.

When you have everything arranged on the page, you must select everything and do right click on the objects, text boxes, shapes or images and click where it says Group, since in this online version everything is handled in the English language mode, but knowing how to execute the procedure will be much easier for you.

How to edit and ungroup previously selected objects

To individually edit an element, you have to double click on it to move it around or change its shape and size, all this without need to ungroup the whole set. You just have to notice that a small selection box appears on the object to modify it without problem.

On the other hand, if what you want is to ungroup the objects, you have to right click on the selected images and put Group and then when the new options you are going to place Ungroup. In this simple way, your elements will once again be individualized so that you can modify them to your liking.

It is important to mention that, to group and ungroup objects, images, shapes or text boxes, you have to select at least two items to do so, since the program does not take into account individual selections to proceed to create combinations of them.