After Effects does not let me merge shape layers?

I got after effects cs6. I'm working on the construction of a somewhat complex shape, made of 5 shapes with the pen tool and I wanted to merge together. but it is not letting me. I looked at the documentation and it says: all you need to do is select the forms you want to merge and Ctrl + G or layer > Group shapes. Doesn't work for me, though. Group shapes is grayed out in the menu.

It's pretty frustrating for me cause I spent a bit of time, making this shape. I hope I'm missing something simple... just if I wanted from the known, that he was going to be it's boring I would of just made the shape in illustrator.

Thanks for the help

You have all your forms in a separate shape layer.

Copy and paste all the paths in the form of a unique shape layers.

Then in a single shape layer select all the paths and make your group.

This:

becomes this:

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