Selection tool
What it does
With this tool you can select a region of your score and edit all selected music at once.
The Selection tool gets its name from the fact that it can also be used to copy music from one place to another—even from one NotePad document to another.
See Erasing and Copying music.
Note. You can undo any Selection tool operation by choosing Undo from the Edit menu.
Special mouse clicks and keyboard shortcuts
- Click a measure to select it.
- Double-click a selected measure to extend the selection to include the entire vertical measure "stack" (that measure in all staves).
- Drag-enclose a region to select it.
- Shift-click a measure to extend the selected region from the first region you selected.
- Click to the left of a staff to select an entire staff.
- Shift-click to the left of a staff to extend the selection from any other staves you’ve selected. You can also choose Select All from the Edit menu to select the entire score.
- Drag a selected region so that it’s superimposed on the beginning of an unselected region to copy or move the selected music to the destination region.
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CTRL+click an unselected region to copy or move the specified contents of any selected music—no matter where it is in the score—to the point you clicked.
- Press BACKSPACE to erase the selected music, leaving behind only default rests.
- Press ESC during a Selection tool operation to cancel the operation and return control of the computer to you.
