diff --git a/crates/engine/src/cmd/globaledit.rs b/crates/engine/src/cmd/globaledit.rs
index 56ae30140..dc54cf792 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/cmd/globaledit.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/cmd/globaledit.rs
@@ -716,8 +716,9 @@ pub(crate) fn propagate(before: &Document, d: &mut Document, ge: &GlobalEdit, se
     edited
 }
 
-/// The outlines of the members of the active document's Global Edit that are not selected, in
-/// their layer's colour: the canvas highlights them while Global Edit is on.
+/// The outlines of the members of the active document's Global Edit that are not selected, hold
+/// no selected object and sit inside no selected object, in their layer's colour: the canvas
+/// highlights them while Global Edit is on.
 pub fn highlights(s: &Session) -> Outlines {
     let Some(st) = s.active() else { return vec![] };
     let Some(ge) = &st.global_edit else { return vec![] };
@@ -732,6 +733,9 @@ pub fn highlights(s: &Session) -> Outlines {
         .iter()
         .filter_map(|(id, _)| {
             let n = st.doc.node(*id).filter(|n| !holds(n, &st.selection.objects))?;
+            if st.doc.ancestry(*id).is_some_and(|a| a.iter().any(|p| st.selection.objects.contains(p))) {
+                return None;
+            }
             let path = match n.stroke_path() {
                 Some(p) => p,
                 None => n.geometric_bounds_with(&symbols)?.to_path(0.1),
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/tests/globaledit.rs b/crates/engine/src/tests/globaledit.rs
index b73efd0df..786a351ac 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/tests/globaledit.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/tests/globaledit.rs
@@ -472,6 +472,20 @@ fn a_shift_click_inside_a_matched_group_leaves_the_whole_group_out() {
     assert_eq!(members(&s), Some(vec![g, small]));
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn a_shift_click_on_a_member_inside_a_selected_group_deselects_the_group() {
+    let mut s = session();
+    let [a, b, c, wide, _] = squares(&mut s);
+    let pair = group_of(&mut s, &[b, wide]);
+    let all = start(&mut s, a, json!({}));
+    assert_eq!(all, [a, c, b], "the copy in the group comes after the small square");
+    sel(&mut s, &[pair]);
+    assert_eq!(crate::cmd::globaledit::highlights(&s).len(), 2, "the copy inside the selected group is not highlighted");
+    shift_click(&mut s, 350.0, 50.0);
+    assert_eq!(members(&s), Some(all), "nothing is left out");
+    assert!(s.doc().unwrap().selection.objects.is_empty(), "the group is deselected");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn leaving_out_all_but_one_ends_global_edit_and_the_first_object_stays() {
     let mut s = session();
diff --git a/crates/tools/src/select.rs b/crates/tools/src/select.rs
index 2819c3369..36aca6092 100644
--- a/crates/tools/src/select.rs
+++ b/crates/tools/src/select.rs
@@ -994,13 +994,15 @@ fn shift_press(cx: &ToolContext, h: &Hit, top: NodeId, out: &mut Vec<Action>) ->
 }
 
 /// The object of the Global Edit in progress that the click `h` lands on or inside, when it is
-/// highlighted: neither the object the edit started from nor one that is selected or holds a
-/// selected object (`select.globalEditExclude` leaves it out of the edit).
+/// highlighted: neither the object the edit started from nor one that is selected, holds a
+/// selected object or sits inside a selected object (`select.globalEditExclude` leaves it out of
+/// the edit).
 fn global_edit_member(cx: &ToolContext, h: &Hit) -> Option<NodeId> {
     let others = cx.global_edit.get(1..)?;
     let member = h.ancestry.iter().chain([&h.leaf]).find(|id| others.iter().any(|(m, _)| m == *id)).copied()?;
-    let selected = cx.selection.objects.iter().any(|s| cx.doc.ancestry(*s).is_some_and(|a| a.contains(&member)));
-    (!selected).then_some(member)
+    let holds = cx.selection.objects.iter().any(|s| cx.doc.ancestry(*s).is_some_and(|a| a.contains(&member)));
+    let inside = cx.doc.ancestry(member).is_some_and(|a| a.iter().any(|id| cx.selection.contains(*id)));
+    (!holds && !inside).then_some(member)
 }
 
 /// Can a click make `id` the key object? `select.key` takes only a selected top-level object. In