# Steps Grouping

When dealing with larger Flows, organizing Steps can help manage them more efficiently. \
**Steps Grouping** is a feature enabling you to organize, move and re-use steps in your Flows in groups that make the most logic for your desired use case.

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#### Before getting started <a href="#h_01g1geszhahn77945r03rv1na9" id="h_01g1geszhahn77945r03rv1na9"></a>

You will need:

* A [MessageBird account](https://dashboard.messagebird.com/)

#### Steps Grouping <a href="#id-01gf60td5vq31m57mt701aqws0" id="id-01gf60td5vq31m57mt701aqws0"></a>

To start grouping several steps:

* Start adding a step to your Flow, choose the *Add Group* option in the menu and add steps inside the newly formed group:

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* Or select two or more steps by holding cmd (Mac)/ctrl (Windows) on your keyboard and clicking on the desired steps:\ <br>

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* As soon as you select more than one step, **Step Grouping** will become available: \ <br>

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* Add the desired name and custom description for the newly created Group:\ <br>

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To build, change, and manage your Flows more efficiently, every group can be:

* copied and pasted inside the same Flow, as well to a different Flow
* moved around the Flow
* deleted
* ungrouped

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A couple of things to have in mind when using **Steps Grouping**:

* Groups cannot be nested inside of another group
* In case anything is missing in the Steps configuration, you will be prompted to correct it:

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* Any group you create will be collapsed by default when opening a Flow to help your Flow act seamlessly and appear visibly cleaner. At any point, you can expand and view the whole group:

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