Nesting & Grouping

[Alan_King@adobeforums.com]

Sorry if this appears a little basic, but could someone explain to me the difference between nesting and grouping objects? (if there is one). If there is a difference how do I go about nesting and what are the advantages over grouping?

Many thanks
Alan King

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

I'm not sure that nesting is anything other than a descriptive term for doing such things as making a group out of some items and another group. That second group is said to be nested inside the first group. There is no "nest" command. Nesting is just the result of doing this kind of thing.

The only place where the word "nested" shows up in a feature is in nested styles where the application of character styles can be automated within the definition of a paragraph style.

Dave

[Ken_Grace@adobeforums.com]

I think the basic difference between nesting and grouping is that nesting is
Russian dolls, while grouping is all the Russian dolls in a bucket.

k

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

The term "nesting" usually refers to having an object inside another object as Ken says. You can accomplish this by copying an object and selecting another, then using the Edit > Paste Into command.

Grouping, of course, is accomplished with the Object > Group command.