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2. Click anywhere outside the rectangle shapes to deselect the group, then
choose the Direct Selection tool in the Tools panel.
The Direct Selection tool selects pieces of an object — specific paths, anchor points,
or individual elements in a grouped object.

3. Click the gold fill of the fourth rectangle in the third row.
Because you clicked the fill, you selected the entire object. If you had clicked along the
object’s stroke, you would have selected that particular segment of the shape’s edge.

Direct Selection tool

Clicking an object’s fill with
the Direct Selection tool
selects only that object,
even though the object is
part of a group.

4. Press Delete to remove the selected object.
Easy enough, especially because this is a very simple group of objects that don’t overlap.
When you start working with complex files that have multiple levels of grouping,
however, it can be challenging to manipulate objects within a group using only the
Direct Selection tool.

5. Choose the Selection tool in the Tools panel, and then double-click the
third rectangle in the third row.
Double-clicking a group enters into Isolation mode, where only objects within the
selected group are available. Basically, Isolation mode provides access to objects in the
group without ungrouping the objects on the main artboard.

“Breadcrumbs” in Objects outside the
the Edit bar show group are grayed in
the path to the Isolation mode.
active selection.
The object where
you double-clicked
is not selected.

6. Using the Selection tool, click the third rectangle in the third row to select
it, and then press Delete.
Because you created only a single level of grouping, you can now use the Selection tool
to select individual objects.

Isolation mode allows you to
access individual elements of
a group, just as you would
select ungrouped objects on
the main artboard.

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