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Entering and editing notes
Using a selection rectangle
1. Click in an empty area in the score with the Object Se-
lection tool and keep the mouse button pressed.
2. Drag the mouse pointer.
A selection rectangle appears. You can drag to select notes on several
voices or staves if you wish.
3. Release the mouse button.
All notes with their note heads inside the rectangle are selected.
If you want to deselect one or more of the notes, hold
down [Shift] and click on them.
Using the keyboard
By default, you can step through (and select) the notes in
the staff using the left and right arrow keys. If you press
[Shift], you can select a series of notes as you step
through them.
• If you are working with polyphonic voices, you will step
through the notes in the current track, i.e. in a split system,
you will step through the staffs.
• If you want to use other keys for selecting notes, you
can customize the settings in the Key Commands dialog
on the File menu (in the Navigate category).
Selecting tied notes
Longer notes are often displayed in the score as one note
with a tie. When you intend to select the entire note for
deleting etc., you should select the first note, not the tied
note.
Deselecting everything
To deselect everything, simply click in an empty area of
the score with the Object Selection tool.
Moving notes
Moving by dragging
1. Set the quantize value.
The quantize value will restrict your movement in time. You cannot place
notes on positions smaller than the quantize value. If Quantize is set to
“1/8 Note” for example, you will not be able to move the notes to a six-
teenth note position. However, you will be able to put them on any eighth
note, quarter note, half note or whole note position.
2. Select the note(s) you want to move.
You can select notes across several staves if you wish.
3. Click one of the selected notes and drag it to a new
position.
The horizontal movement of the note is “magnetically attracted” to the
current quantize value. The mouse position box on the toolbar shows
what the new position and pitch for the dragged note will be.
Ö If the option “Show Note Info by the Mouse” is acti-
vated in the Preferences dialog (Scores-Editing page), the
position and pitch of the note will also be shown in a “tool
tip” next to the pointer while you’re dragging.
If you find that screen redraws are too sluggish, you may want to deacti-
vate this option.
4. Release the mouse button.
The notes appear at their new position.
• If you press [Ctrl]/[Command] and drag, movement is
restricted to vertical or horizontal only (depending on the
direction in which you drag).
• If you move notes vertically and the option “Keep moved
notes within key” is activated in the Preferences dialog
(Scores-Editing page), the notes will be transposed within
the current key only.
Moving by using key commands
Instead of dragging the note with the mouse, you can as-
sign key commands for this:
• The commands for which you should assign keys are
found in the Nudge category in the Key Commands dialog.
The commands are listed as “Left”, “Right”, “Top” and “Bottom”.
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There is a setting for this in the Preferences dialog
(Scores-Editing page): If you activate “Tied notes
selected as Single Units”, the whole note will be
selected, even if you click on one of the tied notes.