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Option 2: By Entry Palette
Many nd the Entry Palette option the most convenient way to create a tuplet out of existing notes already on a sta.
1. Highlight or click-select adjacent notes you want to make into a single tuplet.
2. In the Entry Palette, hover over the third pane from the left and click in the pop-up menu.
» Immediately the notes become a tuplet. You will see a triplet when you highlight three notes of equal value in a
common Time signature, as in the example below. Other types of tuplets appear when valid. As an example, when
you group a series of 5 notes you produce a quintuplet, and so on.
◙ Making three notes into a single triplet
Option 3: By Context Menu
Creating tuplets by context menu is one way to convert notes already on a sta to a tuplet.
1. Highlight or click-select adjacent notes you want to make into a single tuplet.
2. Then right-click.
» A context menu appears.
3. Click Tuplets.
» A submenu appears.
4. Click Make Tuplet.
Option 4: Customize Your Own
This method, available by context menu or by Entry Palette, oers a dialog box with
properties for you to customize how you want your tuplet to look.
1. Highlight or click-select the adjacent notes you want to become a tuplet.
2. To open a Tuplet dialog box, either:
> Right-click and select Tuplets > Custom Tuplet, or
> In the Entry Palette, hover over the third pane from the left and click in the pop-up menu
» A Tuplet dialog box opens.
◙ Tuplet dialog box.