Pathfinder Unite not uniting everything

[jdballou]

Hi Experts

My attempt to use Pathfinder to Unite objects is not completely uniting them.

Here is the artwork. Basically a frequency distribution with each bar

I want add a stroke to the distribution but only to the outside edge, not to the vertical lines for each bar.

So I thought that Pathfinder Unite would do that.

With all the bars selected like above I ran Pathfinder Unite and got this:

It is uniting most, but not as one single object.

Any ideas what might be causing this?

Thanks!

jballou

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

It could be that there is a tiny gap between some columns.

You could try and drag over selected objects with the Shape Builder tool (Shift M).

[jdballou]

The Shape Builder tool took care of it. Many thanks for that suggestions!

[Ton Frederiks]

Good to hear that helped.