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Design Illustrator Foundations Adding Color and Type Painting Objects and Adding Graphic Fills

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hahy
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 10,059 Points

Why do we have to expand before merging?

Hi, I noticed in this video Matt expand the objects before merging them. Why don't we just go ahead and merge them? What's the purpose of expanding in this case? I'd be very grateful if anyone could help me answer this.