Dear Members,

Lets us understand the concept of group and combine in depth and compare both of them using certain commands.

1. Open Corel Draw.
2. Draw rectangle using Rectangle and fill it with red color. Keep it selected.
3. Go to Edit > Duplicate
4. You will get another rectangle filled with red color.
5. Fill the second rectangle with green color.
6. Keep them side by side, on the same level with a very less space in between.
7. Select both of them.
8. Go to Arrange > Group
9. Both the rectangles are grouped and still filled with the different colors.
10. Go to Arrange > Ungroup
11. Now the rectangles are ungrouped.
12. Go to Arrange > Combine
13. The objects are combined and filled with single color.
14. You need to do this smoothly as we are going to use the same rectangles further to explain the difference between group and combine.
15. Go to Arrange > Break Curve Apart
16. Click anywhere to deselect the object.
17. Select any object using Pick Tool.
18. You will observe that now you can select any object separately and fill the color of your choice.
19. We will be using different fill in the next part which will reveal the nature of group and combine commands.

With regards
Atul Thakur
Editor
http://www.insidegraphics.com
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