How to Add Group Shape into a Word Document

Below are some of the Shape types supported in Aspose.Words. For complete list, please see aspose.words.drawing.ShapeType enumeration

• Rectangle
• RoundRectangle
• Ellipse
• Diamond
• Triangle
• RightTriangle
• Parallelogram
• Trapezoid
• Hexagon
• Octagon

Sometimes you need to add a group shape into a Word document. In Microsoft Word, you can quickly add a group shape using Group command/button. A group shape consists of multiple shapes. Individual shape in a group can be moved separately. In Aspose.Words it is very easy to add a group shape using GroupShape class. Shape is created separately using Shape class and then added in GroupShape object using append_child method.

Example

Below example add a group shape into a Word document.