Edit menu

• Undo

• Redo

• Select All

• Cut

• Copy

• Paste

• Paste Multiple

• Clear All Items

• Remove Manual Slur Adjustments

• Add Measures

• Insert Measure Stack

• Delete Measure Stack

• Measurement Units – Inches

• Measurement Units – Centimeters

How to get there

The Edit menu is one of NotePad’s unchanging menus.

What it does

You can find an assortment of editing commands in the Edit menu. Use the Edit menu to cut, copy and paste text when you’re editing the actual text (these commands are also available in the Selection tool and Text tools).

• Undo. All NotePad’s document settings can be restored to their previous settings with the "undo" command. After you change a dialog box that contains document settings and click OK to return to the score, you can choose Undo from the Edit menu to return to the previous settings.
• Redo. Choose Redo perform the previous undo action. If you have performed too many undo actions in a row, use the redo to replace the actions removed. See Undo.
• Select All. You can use this command with most of NotePad’s tools. In a number of cases, you can exclude (deselect) one handle at a time from the selection by shift-clicking its handle.
• Cut. After selecting a region of music with the Selection tool, choose Cut to place the selected music on the Clipboard and simultaneously remove the music from the score. Once you’ve placed the cut music on the Clipboard, you can paste it to another place in your score or into another NotePad document.
• Copy. After selecting a region of music with the Selection tool, choose Copy to place a duplicate of the selected music on the Clipboard; you are now ready to paste to another place in your score or another NotePad document.
• Paste. Choose Paste if you want whatever music you’ve cut or copied to the Clipboard to paste over (replace) the music in the target document (first use the Selection tool to select the area of music you want to replace). See Copying music for an illustration.
• Paste Multiple. Select a target region and then choose this option open the Paste Multiple dialog box where you can paste multiple copies of the source material to the target region. You can replicate the source material as many times as you want (horizontally).
• Clear All Items.When you choose Clear All Items, NotePad removes the contents of the selected music (whether or not you’ve selected entire measures), leaving equivalent rests behind.
• Remove Manual Slur Adjustments. When you choose Remove Manual Slur Adjustments, NotePad resets any Smart Shape slurs to their default positions and converts any old slurs to Engraver slurs. Engraver slurs will reshape independently again. See Slurs.
• Add Measures. When you choose Add, NotePad asks you how many new blank measures you want to add (in all staves) to the end of the piece. (See Add Measures dialog box.) Enter the number of measures you want added, and click OK. (This command performs the same function as ctrl-clicking the Measure tool.)
• Choose Insert Measure Stack if you want to insert new empty measures within the score.
• Delete Measure Stack. When you choose Delete Measure Stack, NotePad removes the selected measures from the piece completely—from all staves—so that there are now fewer measures in the piece. Double-click to select a measure stack. See Selecting Music.
• Measurement Units: Inches • Centimeters. In the Setup Wizard, you’re asked to specify a measurement for the page size. Using the submenu of the Measurement Units command, you can select the measurement unit you want NotePad to understand and display.

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