Group the selection keyboard shortcut in 20 apps
Group the selection has a documented keyboard shortcut in 20 apps here, among them Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop. The most common keys are Ctrl + G on Windows and Cmd + G on a Mac.
Keys on this page were last checked against their sources on September 14, 2026.
| App | Windows | Mac | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe After Effects | Windows Ctrl + G | Mac Cmd + G | Group the selected shapes |
| Adobe Illustrator | Windows Ctrl + G | Mac Cmd + G | Group the selection |
| Adobe Lightroom | Windows Ctrl + G | Mac Cmd + G | Group photos into a stack |
| Adobe Photoshop | Windows Ctrl + G | Mac Cmd + G | Group the selected layers |
| Adobe Premiere Pro | Windows Ctrl + G | Mac Cmd + G | Group the clips |
| Canva | Windows Ctrl + G | Mac Cmd + G | Group the selection |
| Figma | Windows Ctrl + G | Mac Cmd + G | Group the selection |
| Inkscape | Windows Ctrl + G | Mac Cmd + G | Group the selection |
| Kdenlive | Windows Ctrl + G | Mac Not documented | Group the clips |
| Keynote | Windows Not documented | Mac Option + Cmd + G | Group the selected objects |
| Krita | Windows Ctrl + G | Mac Not documented | Put the layers in a group |
| LibreOffice Impress | Windows Shift + Ctrl + G | Mac Shift + Cmd + G | Group the selected objects |
| Microsoft PowerPoint | Windows Ctrl + G | Mac Not documented | Combine selected objects |
| Microsoft Visio | Windows Ctrl + G | Mac Not documented | Group the selected shapes |
| Miro | Windows Ctrl + G | Mac Cmd + G | Group the items |
| Numbers | Windows Not documented | Mac Option + Cmd + G | Group the selected objects |
| Pages | Windows Not documented | Mac Option + Cmd + G | Group the selected objects |
| Power BI Desktop | Windows Ctrl + G | Mac Not documented | Group the selected visuals |
| Sketch | Windows Not documented | Mac Cmd + G | Group the selection |
| WordPress block editor | Windows Ctrl + G | Mac Cmd + G | Wrap the selected blocks in a group |
What most apps settled on for Group the selection
On Windows, Ctrl + G is the combination in 15 of the 16 apps here that document one. On a Mac, it is Cmd + G in 11 of 15. One app goes its own way on Windows, and the table above is where to find it.
Where the table is deliberately empty
5 apps here publish no Mac key for Group the selection, so those cells are left blank. 4 document it for Mac only. A blank there is a gap in that maker documentation for Group the selection, not an oversight here, and it is never filled by converting the other system.
If the keys for Group the selection do nothing
The 20 apps listed here each decide this for themselves, so the first thing to check is that you are reading the row for the app you are actually in, and the column for your system. After that, check the app version, since group the selection is the kind of command makers move between releases. Report a correction
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