How to Group and Ungroup Objects in PowerPoint

There are many nifty features tucked away in PowerPoint, and the more you learn about and master them, the easier and more enjoyable your presentation making will become. One of them is the group feature, which lets you bunch objects together into groups, so you can more easily move them about, resize them, or copy and paste them onto other slides.

This guide looks at how to group and ungroup objects in PowerPoint.

How to Group Objects in PowerPoint

We’ll start off with a look at how to make a group of objects in PowerPoint. It’s very easy to do and it works in all modern versions of PowerPoint, including PowerPoint for Microsoft 365, PowerPoint 2024, PowerPoint 2021, and even as far back as PowerPoint 2010.

Step 1. Open your presentation and go to the slide where you have multiple objects that you wish to join. In this example, we have four circles of different colors, which are all individual, separate objects to put in a group.

Step 2. Select the items you want to put in your group. You can either click and drag the mouse over all the other items, or click each one in turn while holding the “Ctrl” key.

Step 3. Right-click on any of the objects that you’ve selected to bring up the contextual menu.

Step 4. In the menu, go to “Group” and then select “Group.” You can also just press “Ctrl” and “G” together on your keyboard to make a group.

Step 5. Your objects should now appear as a group, with one single selection box around them all. You can click and drag the group around or use the buttons provided to resize and rotate it. You can also right-click on it and select functions like “Copy” to make duplicates of your group.

Note that even after you’ve made a group, you’re still able to edit individual items within that group without ungrouping them. To do this, you just click to select the group, then click again on the specific object within the group you want to edit.

How to Group and Ungroup Objects in PowerPoint

Next, let’s look at how to ungroup or separate an existing group back into its individual parts. This is very similar to the previous process and only takes a couple of seconds, once you know how.

Step 1. Click to select your group.

Step 2. Right-click anywhere within the group on any of the objects.

Step 3. Go to “Group” and then select “Ungroup.” Your objects should now separate and go back to being individual items you can move and resize independently of each other. Note that you can also use the “Ctrl + Shift + G” shortcut to ungroup.