Grouping jpeg pictures with drawn objects

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I am trying to attached drawn triangles to sides of a jpeg picture to cover unwanted areas by grouping. The group option is grayed out when I select the jpeg picture and triangles. Is this possible what I am trying to do ?
 
You cannot group a shape if it is a placeholder. I am sure one of the shapes
in the selection that you are trying to group is a placeholder.
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Shyam Pillai

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J Igus said:
I am trying to attached drawn triangles to sides of a jpeg picture to
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cover unwanted areas by grouping. The group option is grayed out when I
select the jpeg picture and triangles. Is this possible what I am trying to
do ?
 
J Igus said:
I am trying to attached drawn triangles to sides of a jpeg picture to
Click to expand...
cover unwanted areas by grouping. The group option is grayed out when I
select the jpeg picture and triangles. Is this possible what I am trying to
do ?
What Shyam said. So try this:

Hold down CTRL while you drag the jpg image. That will make a copy of it,
but the copy will be a normal picture, not a picture-in-placeholder.

Try grouping that with the drawn triangles.

If that does the job for you, have a look here:

Do this before using PowerPoint seriously
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00034.htm

All the suggestions are good ones, I think, but see the one about turning
off Automatic Layout in particular.

That should prevent this from happening in the future.
 
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