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Simple Entry palette and Rests palette
How to get there
Click the Simple Entry tool . (Make sure a check mark appears beside Simple
Entry palette in the Window Menu.)
What it does
This floating, resizable, movable palette
contains icons representing note values, accidentals, and other tools
for clicking music into your score. The palette comes docked initially
into the document window. (The palette shown here has been reshaped into
a horizontal arrangement.) You can select one tool in each category, such
as one note duration, one accidental, and one tuplet. To clear all other
tool selections, double-click on a tool. See also Keyboard Shortcuts - Simple
Entry.
- [Title
barDrag bar]. Drag this gray strip—at the top or left side of the
palette—to move the palette.
- [Close
box]. Click this xwhite square 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: press the appropriate note-value number key then 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.
- [Resize
box]. Drag this white square to resize or reshape the palette.
If you drag toward the upper-left, you can actually make the palette smaller
by hiding some of the tools.
- [Icons].
Click an icon, then click on a staff to place that note value (or
other marking) into the score. Use the Eraser to remove notes or other
markings. To move a tool on the palette, shift-drag it on top of another
icon. See Simple Entry.