Grouping in PowerPoint - Troubleshooting Issues
Troubleshoot grouping problems in PowerPoint.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, 2003 and 2007
OS: Microsoft Windows XP / Vista
Date Created: April 7th 2009
Last Updated: April 7th 2009
The Group Option is Grayed Out
This happens when you are trying to group placeholders on a slide with other slide objects. Placeholders are special objects on a slide that are part of the slide layout. For example in a conventional bulleted slide, the title and text box are often placeholders, and these cannot be grouped with other inserted slide objects like shapes, pictures, or charts. That's the reason your Group option may be grayed out.
It's also found that if you use the Photo Album option to create slides with imported pictures, then you cannot group them with pictures inserted using the Insert menu of tab options.
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