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You can select notes and items on multiple staves and in specic voices, for example, if you
only want to select notes in up-stem voices on four staves.
2. Press Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-A to expand your selection.
3. Optional: Continue pressing Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-A to extend your selection further.
RESULT
More of the same types of items and notes in the same voices as your original selection are
selected, with the range of selected items expanding each time you press the key command:
rstly to the boundaries of the bar, secondly to the boundaries of the system, and nally to the
rest of the ow. If there are no other items available in the bar, Dorico Elements automatically
advances to the second expansion. In galley view, the second expansion is to the entire ow
directly as there is only a single system in galley view.
For items that span multiple bars and systems, they are selected in the earliest bar/system in
which they exist.
NOTE
Dorico Elements selects the following items differently if you select only a single one of them:
● Lyrics: The selection expands only to other lyrics with the same line number, placement, and
line type as the originally selected lyric.
● Dynamics: The rst expansion is to all other dynamics in the same group and on the same
staves as the original selection, with further expansions selecting other dynamics in other
groups.
● Playing techniques: The selection expands only to playing techniques of the same category,
such as Strings or Choral. Additionally, if you select either an up bow or down bow playing
technique, the selection expands only to other up bow and down bow playing techniques. It
does not select any other playing techniques.
Selecting multiple items using marquee selections
You can use a marquee selection to select multiple notes and notations at the same time within a
specic area in Write mode and Play mode.
PROCEDURE
1. In the status bar, click Marquee Tool .
2.
In the music area, click and drag across the area where you want to select everything.
A gray rectangle is shown to indicate which notes and notations will be selected. We
recommend that you click in one corner of the area you want to select and drag diagonally
across to the other corner.
RESULT
All notes and notations in the area within the gray rectangle are selected.
NOTE
Only items completely within the area are selected. However, if any part of a note/tie chain is
within the area, the whole note/tie chain is selected.
Write mode
Editing and selecting
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Dorico Elements 3.5.12