Text tool

What it does

The Text tool is used to enter blocks of text—not only the title of your piece, but also any headers, footers, page numbers, copyright notices, performance notes, and similar text that appears on one or more pages—directly into the score; position text blocks; and set fonts and styles for the text directly on-screen. Click the Text tool to display a menu for editing text, the Text menu. Use the Text menu to specify fonts and styles for the text in a text block. The menus will display checkmarks for settings of the selected text blocks (such as 10 pt. and bold). If you have more than one setting such as mixed fonts or multiple text blocks selected with different settings, no selection in the menus will be displayed. Select a new setting to change the setting. Select Undo to reverse your action. When no text block handles are selected, the menus show the default text block settings. These default settings can also be changed by selecting a new setting from the menu. You can undo the change by selecting Undo. You can select more than one text block handle and apply settings to multiple text blocks as well as undo the changes you just made.

Editing inside text blocks can also be undone by selecting Edit> Undo.

Special mouse clicks

This list summarizes special mouse click actions for the Text tool.

• Click a text block handle or drag-enclose text block handles to select a text block or text blocks.
• Shift-click a text block handle to add a text block to the selection. If a text block is already selected, remove the text block from the selection.
• Double-click in the score to create a text block that expands as you enter text.
• Double-click a text block handle, or right-click the handle and select Edit Text from the contextual menu to edit the text block. The frame surrounding the text appears. A cursor appears in the text block.
• Press delete for one or more selected text blocks, or right-click the handle and select Delete from the contextual menu to delete the selected text blocks.
• Drag a selected text block handle to adjust the text block’s position in the score.

Contextual menus

Contextual menus are reached by right-clicking on the handle of an object. A contextual menu will be displayed where you can select various items.

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