Work with Grouped Symbols

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Excel allows you to group shapes together so that they can be treated as a single shape. This lets you select the grouped items as one item and move, copy, or delete it more easily. It also protects the layout of a set of shapes, since it fixes the grouped items in place.

Access to Group Functions

Excel 2000 - 2003: The Group, Ungroup, and Regroup functions are available on the FlowBreeze toolbar under the Drawing Tools drop down menu.

Excel 2007: The Group, Ungroup, and Regroup functions are available on the in Excel 2000 - 2003, and via the Layout > Group menus on the FlowBreeze tab of the Excel 2007 ribbon.

Function Descriptions

Group: Allows you manipulate a set of shapes as a single shape. To group a set of symbols, first you need to select the symbols, then apply the group function.

Ungroup: Ungroups the shapes so they can be individually moved, edited, or deleted.

Regroup: If a shape had previously been in a group that was later ungrouped, you can Regroup the entire set of shapes by clicking on a single one and applying the Regroup function.