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Ungrouping Slide Objects in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows

This tutorial shows how to ungroup slide objects in PowerPoint 2007 or later versions.

Author: Geetesh Bajaj

Product/Version: Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
OS: Microsoft Windows XP / Vista

Date Created: April 14th 2009
Last Updated: April 14th 2009

You can ungroup a slide object only if they are grouped in the first place. Before starting this tutorial, make sure you have a group of slide objects. You can learn how to group in PowerPoint 2007 or later versions here.

Thereafter, follow these steps to ungroup objects in PowerPoint 2007 or higher versions -- for a PowerPoint 2002/2003 specific version of this tutorial, look here:

1. Select the group on the slide, as shown in Figure 1.
   
   
   Figure 1: Grouped object on slide
   
   
2. Now choose either of these options to ungroup the objects:
   
   
   1. Right-click the selected objects carefully to get a contextual menu, from the menu choose Group | Ungroup (see Figure 2).
      
      
      Figure 2: Ungroup
      
      
   2. Alternatively, you'll find that selecting the objects shows the Drawing Tools Format tab of the Ribbon, as shown in Figure 3. Activate this Ribbon tab.
      
      
      Figure 3: Drawing Tools Format tab of the Ribbon
      
      Note: The Drawing Tools Format tab is a contextual tab, These tabs are special tabs in the Ribbon that are not visible all the time -- they only make an appearance when you are working with a particular slide object which can be edited using special options.
      
      From the Drawing Tools Format tab, locate the Arrange group, then select the Group | Ungroup option, as shown in Figure 4.
      
      
      Figure 4: Ungroup slide objects
      
      
   3. The easiest option is to use the shortcut key: Ctrl + Shift + G -- see more shortcut keys here.
   
   
3. Save your presentation.

Problems with Ungrouping? See our Ungrouping in PowerPoint Troubleshooting page...