Simple Entry palette and Rests palette

How to get there

Click the Simple Entry tool .

What it does

This resizable, movable palette contains icons representing note values, accidentals, and other tools for clicking music into your score. (The palettes shown here have been turned into floating palettes.) See also Keyboard Shortcuts - Simple Entry.

• [Title bar]. Drag this strip—at the top of the palette—to move the palette.
• [Close box]. Click this X to hide the palette. (Choosing Simple Entry palette from the Window menu—so that the check mark disappears—serves the same purpose.) Once the palette is hidden, you can still place notes into the score: hold down the appropriate note-value number key as you click onto a staff. See Simple Entry.
• [Sizable frame]. This border functions like any sizable frame in a Windows program. Drag the frame to resize the palette so that fewer icons appear, or to reshape the palette.
• [Icons]. Click an icon, then click on a staff to place that note value (or other marking) into the score. Use the Eraser to turn a note into a rest (by clicking on a note) or remove it completely (by clicking above or below it).

Eraser

Click an item to delete it.

Whole Note

Click the staff to place a whole note.

Half Note

Click the staff to place a half note.

Quarter Note

Click the staff to place a quarter note.

Eighth Note

Click the staff to place a eighth note.

16th Note

Click the staff to place a 16th note.

32nd Note

Click the staff to place a 32nd note.

Dot

Click on, above or below a note or rest to make it a dotted; click again to add another dot.

Sharp

Click a note to make it sharp.

Flat

Click a note to make it flat.

Natural

Click a note to make it natural.

Tie

Click a note to tie it to the next note; click a stem to tie an entire chord.

Tuplet

Click a note to create a tuplet; click again to delete the tuplet.

Simple Entry Rest palette

Whole Rest

Click the staff to place a whole rest.

Half Rest

Click the staff to place a half rest.

Quarter Rest

Click the staff to place a quarter rest.

Eighth Rest

Click the staff to place an eighth rest.

16th Rest

Click the staff to place a 16th rest.

32nd Rest

Click the staff to place a 32nd rest.

See Also:

Simple Entry tool

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