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Working with text
Text functions
The Words tab
If you have certain words that you use a lot, you can “store”
these as dedicated symbols on the Words tab. This saves
time, since you do not have to type the same word over and
over again.
Storing a word
1. Open the Words symbol tab.
This tab is hidden by default. See “Showing/Hiding Symbols Inspector
tabs” on page 620 for information on how to display hidden Inspector
tabs.
2. Double-click on an “empty” symbol.
The Custom Text Editor dialog appears.
3. Type in the desired word(s) in the text field at the top
of the dialog.
4. Specify the text type (regular text or lyrics) with the
Type pop-up menu.
5. Make settings for font, size, and style.
You can also use a text attribute set if you like.
6. Click Exit to close the dialog.
The words that you entered appear in the selected symbol field on the
Words tab.
• Right-clicking one of the fields opens a context menu
with a number of options:
• Select “Edit…” to open the Custom Text Editor dialog.
• Select “New” to add a new empty symbol to the Words tab.
• Select “Remove” to delete any unwanted symbols from the
Words tab.
• Select “Open As Palette” to open the Words symbol palette.
Inserting a word
You insert words from the Words tab as you would insert
any regular symbol, by selecting the appropriate word and
clicking in the score. However, you can edit the word after
inserting it, just as with text inserted by typing.
Find and replace
This function allows you to replace all occurrences of a
certain word or group of words, with another word or
group of words. The replacement is done once and for all,
for all text symbol types, regardless of font, size, and style
settings. Proceed as follows:
1. Pull down the Scores menu and select “Find and Re-
place” from the Functions submenu.
The Find and Replace dialog opens.
2. In the Find value field, enter the words to replace.
3. If you want all instances of the words to be replaced,
regardless of upper/lower case, deactivate the “Case
Sensitive” option.
4. If you do not want to replace the words if they are a
part of another word, activate the “Entire Word” option.
For example, if you want to replace the word “string” but not the word
“stringendo”, you should activate “Entire Word”.
5. In the “Replace” field, enter the words that are to be
used as replacement.