How about you just select objects to be grouped, then with a keystroke its grouped. If you dont care for the name of the group (there's only few who cares anyway...) the macro below quickly creates an anonymous group.
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If you're an extensive photoshop user, you might want to Replace the Ctrl-G (Grid Toggle) macro with this one. Besides F7 is always there to the rescue. Its always good to unite keyboard shortcuts of the programs you use.