Main tool palette
How to get there
The Main tool palette is almost always open on the screen. If it’s not, choose Window > Main tool palette.
What it does
This palette contains all of NotePad’s primary tools. You can move, resize, reshape, or hide the palette itself. You hold the mouse over any of the tools to find out what the name of the tool is. Click on the name of the tool in the picture below to view that section of the Help.
- [Close box]. When displayed as a floating palette, click this X at the upper-left corner of the palette to close the palette. Once it’s hidden, you make the palette reappear by choosing Main tool palette from the Window menu.
- [Title bar]. When displayed as a floating palette, drag the strip across the top edge of the palette to move the entire palette to a new screen location.
- [Sizable frame]. When displayed as a floating palette, click on the very edge of the palette and drag the sizable frame to reshape the entire palette. As you drag, the palette snaps into new configurations: tall and thin, short and stout, square, and so on. If your monitor is wider than it is tall, for example, you might consider rotating the palette so that it’s a short horizontal strip.
- [tool icons]. See the individual tool for a complete discussion of each tool and what it does.
Selection tool
Key Signature tool
Simple Entry tool
Tuplet tool
Smart Shape tool
Articulation tool
Expression tool
Repeat tool
Lyrics tool
Text tool
