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Working with symbols
Moving by using the computer keyboard
You can assign key commands for moving symbols, notes
or rests graphically in the Key Commands dialog on the
File menu. The commands are found under the “Nudge”
category and are called “Graphical Left”, “Graphical
Right”, “Graphical Top” and “Graphical Bottom”.
Selecting an object and using one of these commands is
the same as dragging them with the Layout tool, but this
method offers higher precision.
Moving and duplicating with the bar handles
This function allows you to move or copy the contents of a
whole bar to one or several other bars. You can select
which elements in the bar should be included in the oper-
ation. Proceed as follows:
1. Bring up the display filter bar by clicking the “Show Fil-
ter View” button on the toolbar.
2. On the filter bar, make sure the “Bar Handles” option
is activated.
Now, each bar in the score is shown with a handle in the upper left corner.
3. Double-click on the handle of the bar from which you
want to copy or move symbols.
The Bar Copy dialog appears.
4. Make sure that only the symbol types you want to
move/copy are checked.
5. If you have several subsequent bars to which you want
to copy symbols, set the “Repeats” value to this number of
bars.
If you only want to copy symbols from one bar to another, make sure “Re-
peats” is set to 1. This option is only available for copying, not for moving.
6. If you want this dialog to appear every time you per-
form the move/copy operation (see below), activate
“Show Dialog”.
7. Click OK to close the dialog.
8. To copy the specified event types to another bar, hold
down [Alt]/[Option], click on the bar handle of the first bar
and drag it to the “target” bar.
To move the event types instead of copying them, drag the bar handle
without holding down [Alt]/[Option].
• If you activated “Show Dialog” in step 6 above, the Bar
Copy dialog appears, allowing you to confirm your settings.
Click OK to close the dialog and perform the operation.
Now, the following happens:
• If you activated “Note Symbols” in step 4 above, the
note symbols are copied from the “source” bar and pasted
onto notes at the same positions in the “target” bar. If
there is a note symbol for a certain note in the “source”
bar, but no note at the corresponding position in the “tar-
get” bar, the symbol will be ignored.
The actual positions of notes are used as a basis for this operation – not
the displayed positions.
• If you activated other types of symbols in step 4 above, these
will simply be moved to the same graphical position in the “tar-
get” bar.
• If you set “Repeats” to a number larger than 1 in step 5 above,
the same symbols will be pasted into that number of bars
(starting from the one you drag the bar handle to).
Bar handles
If you copy the note symbols from the first bar to the second bar…
…only symbols that find corresponding note positions in the
second bar will be copied.