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Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Draw Guide

Combining Multiple Objects

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• Introduction: Grouping and Combining Objects
• Grouping Objects
  • Grouping by Common Selection
  • Maintaining Groups and Undoing Groups
  • Editing Individual Objects in a Group
  • Nesting Groups
• Combining Objects
  • Connecting Lines
• Merging, Subtracting, or Intersecting Shapes
  • Merge
  • Subtract
  • Intersect
  • Practical Example
• Aids for Positioning Objects
  • Moving an Object to the Front or to the Back
  • Aligning Objects
  • Distributing the Distance and Space Between Objects

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Merge

When you merge objects, the new object covers the entire surface of the original objects, representing the union of the objects. As was the case with combining, the fill of the merged object is determined by the fill of the object furthest in the background. Other properties are not transferred to the new object.