Keyboard Shortcuts and Special Mouse Clicks
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Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Click |
New |
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Open |
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Close |
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Save |
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-P |
Quit |
Alt-F4 |
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Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Click |
Undo |
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Redo |
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Cut |
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Paste |
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Select All |
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Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Click |
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View at 400% |
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View At 200% |
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View At 100% |
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View At 75% |
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View At 50% |
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Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Click |
Select Yes or No dialog boxes |
Type N for "No" and Y for "Yes" |
Scroll up or down the Page |
Page Up or Page Down |
Next or Previous Page |
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Command |
Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Click |
Click on, above, or below a note or rest that doesn’t have an articulation attached, or click on a note whose articulation handles are visible. |
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Select an articulation |
Click, or shift-click the handle. |
Move an articulation |
Drag the handle ( |
Delete an articulation |
Select the handle and press delete, or |
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Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Click |
Display the Expression Selection dialog box |
Double-click on, above, or below a measure or note |
Display expression handles |
Click the Expression tool |
Select an expression handle |
Click, or shift-click to select multiple handles or press |
Move selected expressions |
Drag the selected handles |
Delete selected expressions |
Press delete, or right mouse control-click the handle and select Delete from the contextual menu |
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Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Click |
Click a measure; drag-enclose a region |
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Extend a selection of measures vertically |
Double-click a selected measure to include the entire vertical measure "stack" (that measure in all staves) |
Extend a selection of measures horizontally to the end or beginning |
While holding down Shift, press the left arrow to extend the selection to the beginning. While holding down Shift, press the right arrow to extend the selection to the end. |
Select a staff or staves |
Click to the left of a staff; Shift-click to the left of a staff to extend the selection |
Move or Copy a selected section of music |
Drag the region so it is superimposed on the beginning of an unselected region; |
Delete selected music |
Press Delete |
Erase selected music |
Press Backspace |
Cancel a Selection tool operation |
Press Esc |
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Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Click |
Display the Repeat Selection dialog box |
Double-click a measure without a repeat or double-click a measure with a repeat |
Delete a repeat barline |
Click on the handle and press delete, or |
Command |
Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Click |
Whole Note |
Press numpad 7 (or |
Half Note |
Press numpad 6 (or |
Quarter Note |
Press numpad 5 (or |
Eighth Note |
Press numpad 4 (or |
Sixteenth Note |
Press numpad 3 (or |
Whole Rest |
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Half Rest |
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Quarter Rest |
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Eighth Rest |
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Sixteenth Rest |
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Sharp |
Hold down |
Natural |
Hold down |
Flat |
Hold down |
Augmentation Dot |
Hold down Shift and press . (period) |
Erase an item (note, rest, accidental, etc.) |
Press delete and click the item (Delete also removes a selected note). Hold down Alt and press Delete to select the Eraser tool without deleting the selected note. |
The following keystrokes can be used to enter a note using the Simple Entry Caret. To activate the caret, click an empty measure with the Simple Entry tool selected, or Ctrl-click a note and press the right arrow key (the caret will appear to the right of the selected note).
Enter note at caret pitch |
Press Enter |
Enter note A through G |
Press the letter keys A-G |
Enter rest |
Press 0 |
After entering a note (with the caret, or by clicking), these are some of the keystrokes you can use to edit it. Note that if there is not a note selected (or the keystroke doesn't apply), the corresponding tool will be selected in the Simple palette.
Change Duration (whole note-32nd note) |
Hold down |
Create Tuplet |
Press 9 (or numpad 9) |
Create user-defined Tuplet |
Hold down |
Toggle between Note and Rest |
Press R |
Move up a step diatonically |
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Move down a step diatonically |
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Move up an octave diatonically |
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Move down an octave diatonically |
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Add a Natural |
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Add a Sharp |
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Add a Flat |
Press - |
Add a Double Flat |
Shift-- (minus) |
Add a Double Sharp |
Shift-= |
Add a Dot |
Press . (period or numpad decimal point) |
Tie to next note |
Press T |
Add note an interval of a _ above |
Press 1-8 |
Add note an interval of a 9th above |
Hold down |
Add note an interval of a _ below |
Hold down Shift and press 1-9 |
Add note |
Hold down Shift and press A-G |
Beam or join a Beam |
Select the note then press / |
Use default beam |
Hold down Shift and press / |
Flip the Stem |
Select the note then press L |
Use default stem |
Hold down Shift and press L |
Delete |
Press Delete |
After you enter a note, it is selected automatically. You can select any note, or move selection between notes using the following keystrokes.
Select a note or rest |
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Move left |
Press the left arrow key |
Move right |
Press the right arrow key |
Move selection up |
Hold down |
Move selection down |
Hold down |
Move selection one measure to the right |
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Move selection one measure to the left |
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Activate Simple Entry Caret |
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Move caret up |
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Move caret down |
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Move caret up an octave |
Hold down Shift and press the up arrow |
Move caret down an octave |
Hold down Shift and press the down arrow |
Select all |
Hold down |
Clear selection |
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Use the following commands to create and edit tablature. Tablature notation (fret numbers) can be added to tablature staves added with the Setup Wizard.
TAB-Add Note on String 1-9 |
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TAB-Add Note on String: At Caret Pitch |
Ctrl-Enter |
TAB-Add Note at Caret String |
Enter |
TAB-Change Pitch: Increment Fret Number |
= or Numpad + |
TAB-Change Pitch: Decrement Fret Number |
- or Numpad - |
TAB-Change String: Down One |
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TAB-Change String: Up One |
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TAB-Duration: 32nd through Whole note |
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TAB-Duration: Augmentation Dot |
. (period) or Numpad . (decimal point) |
TAB-Duration:Tuplet - Create Default |
Alt-0 or Ctrl-Alt 9 or Ctrl-Alt-Numpad 9 |
TAB-Duration:Tuplet - Create User Defined |
Shift-0 |
TAB-Enter Note on Fret 0-9 or A-K |
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TAB-Enter Note on Fret 10-19 or L-U |
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TAB-Enter Rest |
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TAB-Modify: Delete |
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TAB-Modify: Tie to Next Note |
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TAB-Modify: Tie to Previous Note |
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TAB-Modify: Toggle Note/Rest |
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TAB-Navigation: Caret/Selection - Clear |
Backspace |
TAB-Navigation: Move caret to string 1-9 |
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TAB-Navigation: String Up |
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TAB-Navigation: String Down |
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TAB-tool: Augmentation Dot |
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TAB-tool: Eraser |
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TAB-tool: Note - 32nd through Whole |
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TAB-tool: Tie |
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TAB-tool: Toggle Note/Rest |
Alt-R |
TAB-tool: Tuplet |
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Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Click |
Display handles on all smart shapes |
Press Enter |
Restore default positioning to slur |
Right-click a slur handle, then choose Remove Manual Slur Adjustments from the contextual menu. |
Drag an endpoint handle |
Change the slur’s ending or starting note |
Drag a center curve handle |
Change the slur’s arc height |
Shift-drag a center curve handle |
Change the slur’s arc height and angle |
Drag an outer curve handle |
Change the slur’s arc and inset asymmetrically |
Control-drag an outer curve handle |
Change the slur’s arc and inset symmetrically |
Add a slur |
S |
Add a crescendo |
< |
Add a decrescendo |
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Add a glissando |
G |
Add a line |
L |
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Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Click |
Left Justify text in a text block |
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Right Justify text in a text block |
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Center Justify text in a text block |
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Bold |
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Italic |
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Underline |
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Display the Text menu |
Click the Text tool |
Display handles on text blocks |
Click the Text tool |
Select a text block or text blocks |
Click a text block handle or drag-enclose text block handles, shift-click a text block handle |
Create an expanding text block |
Double-click in the score |
Create a fixed-size text block |
Double-click and drag in the score |
Edit the text block |
Double-click a text block handle. |
Delete the selected text blocks |
Press delete for one or more selected text blocks, or |
Adjust the text block’s position in the score |
Drag a selected text block handle |
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Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Click |
Display positioning handles |
Click the first note of a tuplet |
Position tuplet |
Drag a positioning handle |
Delete tuplet |
Press delete for selected tuplet, or |
Display the Tuplet Definition dialog box |
Double-click a positioning handle or the first note in a group that you want to define as tuplets, or |
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Keyboard Shortcut or Mouse Click |
Begin playing from the current measure |
Spacebar–click in staff |
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