Re-sizing grouped shapes

Recently I have been unable to re-size grouped objects in a page layout. I have about 4 floating shapes forming the image of a framed painting on a wall. When grouped, I can adjust the height of the group, but not the width. I have been doing this same layout for quite some time and only recently have had this problem...I have looked at the User Guide and the topics here...anybody know what the problem might be?

Mo-fin wrote:
Recently I have been unable to re-size grouped objects in a page layout. I have about 4 floating shapes forming the image of a framed painting on a wall. When grouped, I can adjust the height of the group, but not the width. I have been doing this same layout for quite some time and only recently have had this problem...I have looked at the User Guide and the topics here...anybody know what the problem might be?
It's normal that nobody knows the trouble…
on a system in good health we may resize in both directions.
Try to run Pages from an other user account.
If it behave the normal way, we will know that the problem is in your User Account.
In such a case,
quit the app
drag its Preferences files :
<startupVolume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Preferences:com.apple.iWork.Pages.pl ist
<startupVolume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Preferences:com.apple.iWork.Pages.LS SharedFileList.plist
on the Desktop,
restart the app
and let us know it it recover a normal behaviour.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 3 juin 2010 22:59:14

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