Select the frame A shape used to hold text, pictures, graphics, PowerText or OLE objects. containing the picture you want to ungroup.
From the Frame menu A list of available commands and actions in Publisher. Menu names are displayed in the menu bar at the top of the Publisher window., select Ungroup Metafile. A copy To place a block of text, a frame, or a graphic onto the Clipboard without removing it from the page, so that you can transfer it to another location. of the picture is created and ungrouped into its individual components.
You can select each part of the picture to change its colour.
If you want to remove or edit the shape of any part of the picture, select Ungroup from the Frame menu. The picture is ungrouped again into its individual components, which are no longer linked together.
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Although the picture is ungrouped when you select Ungroup Metafile, the components stay linked together in the same way as a set of grouped frames.
You can only ungroup metafile type pictures, such as those with the file extensions The full-stop and characters at the end of a filename. An extension usually identifies the kind of information a file contains. For example, files that you create using Publisher have the .DTP extension. .WMF or .CGM.