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Working with symbols
Dragging symbols across staves
If you drag a symbol across the staves, you can see how
the “active staff” indicator to the left follows the mouse
pointer. Use this as an indication to make sure that sym-
bols end up in the correct staff.
• If you are editing several tracks at the same time, and
want to make sure that a symbol is not accidentally moved
to another track when you drag it vertically, activate the
Lock “L” button on the extended toolbar.
When this is activated, you cannot move symbols across staves by drag-
ging.
Moving by using the computer keyboard
In the Key Commands dialog, you can assign key com-
mands for moving symbols, notes, or rests graphically. The
commands are found in 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 will be included in the operation.
Proceed as follows:
1. Make sure that the filter bar is visible.
If the filter bar is not visible, click the “Set up Window Layout” button on
the toolbar and activate the Filters option.
2. On the filter bar, make sure that 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 that 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 that
“Repeats” 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, 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”, the Bar Copy dialog ap-
pears, allowing you to confirm your settings.
Click OK to close the dialog and perform the operation.
Bar handles