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Groups consist of a rectangular box drawn around other objects. They simply allow you to visually group other objects.

 

Putting a group on a page

Going to a blank area of a page and doing a Right-click > Group
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By copying an existing group (Right-click > Copy) and pasting it (going to a blank area of a page and doing a Right-click > Paste).

 

Group of steps

 

Groups have rows associated with them in the details table as shown below:

 

Group row

 

Cloning a group

A group can also be pasted as a clone - a 'live copy' with a shadow of the indicator icon down one side as below (Right-click > Copy, go  to where you want the clone and do a Right-click > Paste as Clone. Various aspects of a group's other clones (if it has any) are updated whenever the cloned group is updated.

Group cloned

 

By double clicking on a group without a name in it, it can be turned into a continuous box with no space for a name at the top.

 

Putting a page-jump on a group

Groups can have page-jumps - small triangles in the bottom right-hand corner of the group which lets you jump to another page.