Copying music

This entry outlines some general techniques for copying music from one place to another.

To copy to another place in the document (by dragging)

• Select the music to be copied.

• Drag the source music so that it’s superimposed on the first target measure. If the first target measure is not on-screen, scroll until you see it. Then, while pressing option, click the first target measure.

To copy and paste

• Select the music to be copied with the Selection tool. See Selecting Music.

• Choose Copy from the Edit menu (or press Command-C). The selected music is placed on the Clipboard. At this point, you can paste the copied material anywhere—either elsewhere in the same document, or into another document. If you want to paste to another document, open the document now, using the Open command in the File menu. You can’t, however, directly paste music into other programs such as word processing or graphics programs.

• Select the region of music you want to replace. NotePad’s Paste command doesn’t introduce any new measures into the "target" document; instead, it replaces whatever was there with the contents of the Clipboard.

• Choose Paste from the Edit menu (or press Command-V).

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