Cutting Multiple Objects at Once Illustrator

Question

Hi. I have a group of objects and I want to take a shape and cut it out of all of them at once. The group has different colors and strokes etc so I don't want to merge them into one. Right now I'm just copying-pasting the shape I want to cut for each object in the group AND I have to ungroup each object to cut out of stroke and fill AND then reorder the objects correctly and it's taking foreverrr! Got to be an easy way??

In this video example, the cream stroke around "engage" is what I want to cut out of all the items around the word so there is negative space "outline" around the word (but needs to go on any color background so I can't just change the color of the stroke). You'll see I'll need to copy it for each item (just did the fill and stroke for one of many objects)... advice appreciated! Example of Issue

Mike_Gondek10189183 · Accepted Answer

Shift Command D - so you can see with checkerboard what is tranparenctCopy the shape you want to knockout to your clipbaordDraw a white rectangle size of your artPaste the clipboard in Front and chnage the fill to blackGroup your white and black art, this is your mask.Select all and in transparency, the preview on left is your art, and on the right is what would be your mackclick mask, note that  the  clip and invert mask settings need to be as shown in my screenshot

pixxxelschubser · Answer

Have you already tried a knockout group?

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