Grouping text boxes together

[amberer]

How do I group a bunch of text boxes together? so that I can move them around and resize them as one?

[try67]

If you're referring to what you see when using the Edit Text & Images tool, the answer is no.

[vincents34697563 · Accepted solution]

I just found a workaround... for some reason Illustrator doesn't give you the option to group text objects by right clicking and pressing group, but I found that it does allow you to group text by using the Group object hotkey (ctrl/cmd+g). Hope that helps!

[Stylestudent]

Perfect answer!  Thanks!

[sammy5638]

Nothing happens when I press this hotkey can you give an example on how you did this? I'm really struggling. Thanks!

[defaultjqsq8z7s574u]

Command+G on Mac

[Shayde48]

Thank you so much!

[Marley C.]

Thank you so much, this is the exact answer I was looking for. I thought I was going crazy lol. 

Side note, how dumb is that? Come on Adobe lol.....

[Manutex]

Works Great.  Thanks!

If your wondering about the solution on Windows, (ctrl+g).  It's that simple.

[bmsemple]

Thanks worked for me. This has been a nuisance for quite sometime. Please fix it adobe!

[MylerTyler]

This option is no longer available on the context menu. Any other suggestions? I found it to be hit miss. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. Usually when there is a shape involved in addition to the text.

[MylerTyler]

Yep... Adding a shape makes it "Groupable" 🙂