To
add blank measures at the end of the document
- From the Edit menu, choose Add Measures.The Add Measures dialog box appears.
- Enter
the desired number of measures. Click OK (or press return).
To insert blank measures within a document
- Choose any tool that allows regional selection. SeeSelecting music.
- Select the measure after the point of insertion.
Even if there is more than one staff, click a single measure. NotePad will add
a blank measure in every staff.
- From the Edit menu, choose Insert Measure Stack. A dialog box appears, asking how many measures
you want to insert.
- Enter the desired number of measures. Click
OK (or press return).
To
erase or remove measures
- Choose any tool that allows regional selection. SeeSelecting music.
- Double-click a measure to select the full measure stack. Highlighting should extend between the staves (or above and below the staff if there is only a single staff).
- Press the Delete key, or, from the Edit menu, choose Delete Measure Stack. This removes
the selected measures from every staff.
The result: your score contains fewer measures.
To
delete a measure from a single staff
In general, when you remove a measure from
the score, NotePad removes the measure in question from every staff
in the score. Using the following technique, however, you can remove a
measure from a single staff (in effect) by sliding the subsequent measures
one measure to the left.
- Click
the Selection tool, and click the next measure after the measure you want
to delete.
- Shift-click
the last measure in the piece. Or, hold down Shift and press the End key.
- Drag
the first selected measure to the left, so that it’s superimposed on the
measure you want to delete.
- Click
OK (or press return).
NotePad moves the music you selected one measure to the left, in effect
eliminating the measure you wanted to remove. There may now be an extra
measure at the end of the staff; just erase or remove it (see To erase or remove measures).
