If you have a group of objects in your Adobe InDesign and you wish to resize just one of the objects in the group, it can be somewhat of a pain to ungroup the objects, size the one you want, then group them all again. Thankfully, you don’t have to if you use this quick tip.
Here’s how you size one object in a group:
- Select the object you want to resize using Adobe InDesign’s Direct Selection tool (the white arrow tool – second one down in the toolbox)
- Once the single object has been selected and the bounding box appears, switch to the Selection tool (the black arrow tool – the first tool in the toolbox)
- The single object is fully selected and you can size it as you normally would
- De-select the single object and your object group remains intact. That’s it!
31. I do agree with all of the concepts you have presented in your post. They are very convincing and can certainly work. Nonetheless, the posts are very quick for newbies. May you please prolong them a bit from next time? Thank you for the post.
Ditto Marijan’s comment. In Illustrator, you can use either method for manipulating one object in a group. I use the direct select – selection tool trick a lot in Illustrator when modifying outlined text.
Great tip for InDesign CS4. Fortunately in CS5 you just have to double-click on group to go into it and select individual objects… š
Regards,
Marijan.