: Can I change the color of grouped shapes with the eyedropper or appearance window in Adobe Illustrator? I thought I used to be able to do this, maybe I am losing my mind. Here are the steps

@Nimeshi706

With the Appearance Panel updates, groups can have multiple fills which are wholly independent of object fills.

If you want to fill a shape, or shapes, within a group by using the Eyedropper on a shape not within a group, you have to select the group shape with the Direct Selection Tool (white arrow) in order to access the object fill rather than the group fill. Selecting the entire Group won't work, as you've discovered.

Groups can not have a fill applied by simply "eyedropping" a non-grouped item. You could ungroup Shapes A, use the Eyedropper, then re-group Shapes A. This would allow access to the object-level fills rather than the group-level fill.

Now, if you have Group A with a fill applied to the group and Group B with a fill applied to the group, you can "eyedrop" between groups.

It's a bit convoluted but you get the hang of it after doing it a few times.

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