ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3
User Guide
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Organizing objects
When working with multiple objects in a single document, you can use several techniques to organize the document:
• You can group individual objects to treat them as one or protect each object’s relationship to the others in the
group.
• You can arrange objects behind or in front of other objects. The way objects are arranged is called the stacking
order.
• You can align selected objects to an area of the canvas or to a vertical or horizontal axis.
Grouping objects
You can group individual selected objects and then manipulate them as if they were a single object. For example, after
drawing the petals of a flower as individual objects, you can group them to select and move the entire flower as a
single object.
You can edit groups without ungrouping them. You can select an individual object in a group for editing without
ungrouping the objects. You can also ungroup the objects at any time.
To group two or more selected objects:
❖ Select Modify > Group.
To ungroup selected objects:
❖ Select Modify > Ungroup.
Selecting objects within groups
To work with individual objects within a group, you can either ungroup the objects or use the Subselection tool to
select individual objects while leaving the group intact.
Subselection tool
Modifying the attributes of a subselected object changes only the subselected object, not the entire group. Moving a
subselected object to another layer removes the object from the group.
Subselecting an object within a group
To select an object that is part of a group:
❖ Select the Subselection tool and click the object or drag a selection area around it. To add objects to or remove
them from the selection, hold down Shift as you click or drag.
