Adobe illustrator 10 Manuale Utente

The direct-selection tool and direct-lasso tool let you select a single path or object that is 
part of one group or several groups. If you have groups of objects within other groups, 
you can select the next group in the grouping hierarchy by using the group-selection tool. 
Each successive click adds another subset of grouped objects to the selection. 

Three groups: Group A is part of group B, which in turn is part of group C.

1 Select the group-selection tool  , and click the path you want to select. 

2 Click the same place again to select successive groups until you have selected every-
thing you want to include in your selection.

First click selects an object (left). Second click selects group A (right).

Third click selects next group, which is group B (left). Fourth click selects group C (right).

Grouped objects must be stacked in succession on the same layer of the artwork; 
therefore, grouping may change the layering of objects and their stacking order on a 
given layer. (See 

 and 

.)

Grouped objects are stacked together behind the frontmost object in the group. If you 
group two objects that are separated by a nongrouped object in the stacking order, 
the nongrouped object is moved behind the grouped objects.

A

B

C