- In this PowerPoint tutorial, I'm going to show you how to group objects. We have a very basic little slide here with some text. I've got two text boxes and a shape. To group objects, you need to select multiple objects. So you can click on 1, hold Shift, click on another, and that will select both of them. You can also click and drag outside of the objects to select multiple objects. You just have to drag larger than the bounding box of that object. 

Once you have multiple selected like this header with a little bar underneath it, I can right click on any one of those objects and find group. The shortcut key for this on Mac is going to be Option-Command-G. And on a PC, it's going to be Alt-Control-G. And once we have it grouped together, it's going to create a bounding box the size of all the items inside here. And we can click and move this around just by clicking on any one of the objects. 

Now, if you have multiple objects inside this group, you can click again. And you see how we see the text box inside of the group bounding box. We could move this around within the group, so you have to be careful of what you grab here. But if we grab the group bounding box, everything will move together, and then we can ungroup this by just right clicking again and going to ungroup another set of shortcut keys, you'll probably never use. So you can just right click on this to ungroup. 

Another way is if you don't have anything selected, you wanted to group everything on your page currently, you can press Command- or Control-A. And that's going to select all, and then you can do the same thing. You can group everything on your document together just like this, and we could move this around altogether. Grouping is really helpful for that. 

And you might have noticed-- and I'm going to copy this shape over. You might have noticed if you've tried maybe creating a header with the text boxes already out here, and then maybe you've created some shapes and you want to do exactly what we did before. I want to grab this and this shape, and go, and I'm going to group it. It's grayed out. 

That's because placeholder text boxes are ungroupable. Ask me why. I have no idea. But you have to create your own text boxes or insert your own shapes and images to be able to group them. So that's something to keep in mind. Whenever you're creating new slides and you have these already set up text boxes, you can just delete those out and create your own if you plan to group objects later. 

Because for some reason those text boxes are not groupable. So whenever you right click and go to Group, it's just going to be grayed out. Interesting little tidbit here. So create your own text boxes for your headers and such things, and then you'll be able to group those objects here in PowerPoint.