How do I unmerge connected paths in Illustrator CS5?

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May 13, 2013
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I was wondering if there was a way to 'unmerge' a group of connected paths. The thing is whenever I click on one of the ovals, it selects a whole group of ovals instead of just the one I selected. The problem is that I drew an oval, copied it multiple times until I made a pile out of it, then copied that pile and made other piles. So whenever I click on one of the ovals, it selects the entire pile. Is there a way I can 'unmerge' or ungroup all the paths so I can select just one of the ovals? I'm not doing this so I can copy them again, I'm trying to delete them individually but I really can't.

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Monika Gause

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Go into the layer panel, find out what kind of object they are and then act accordingly. For instance: if it's a group, ungroup it.

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sinsenestAuthor

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Well I've already tried 'ungrouping' it that way and it doesn't work. And I'm not sure what you mean by what kind of object it is. How do I find that out? I'm still new to Illustrator so I'm not used to everything on there.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

sinsenest,

Yoy may deselect and then use the Direct Selection Tool (white arrow) to delete each.

If you can just click the fill of a path you can press Delete once and it is gone. If you have to click the stroke (the actual path) you will have to press Delete twice.

There seems to be something strange, where parts of stroke sare missing. In some places it looks like a stroke applied to a group of paths, in other places it seems even weirder. Is that part of your present editing?

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