User Manual

6.4
To inform Notion which items in your score you want to edit, copy, or delete, you rst select or highlight them. With
click-select, you click your mouse on one or more existing items. With highlight, you “draw” a box around them.
Click-Select Items
With your cursor as the Pointer (select tool), you can click-select an existing item in your score to edit it.
8 A click-selected item turns orange in color to show it is selected.
8 To click-select multiple items, hold down the Shift or Ctrl key as you click any number and mix of items anywhere in
the score. Release the key only when you select all the items you want. Each item you click is orange in color.
8 To select a chord, double-click any note in the chord.
8 If you have a selection highlighted, you can also press Enter to select all the notes within the selection
Highlight Items
To quickly select large areas of your score, you can draw a highlight box around any number of contiguous items to create
a range selection.
1. Ensure your cursor is the Pointer. If needed, press Esc to switch to this cursor style.
2. Hold down a mouse click at the starting point and drag the Pointer. You can start and end in any direction within
one sta or across multiple staves (as in the example below).
» Notion highlights the area you select.
3. Release your click when you have highlighted the area you want.
TIP: To quickly highlight a large area or multiple pages, create a small
highlight at the beginning. Then hold down the Shift key and click an item in your score at the end point. Notion
automatically highlights all measures in-between.
4. To speed editing when you have multiple parts in a score, Notion draws boxes around other markings in other
staves that are also at this location. If a box is shaded, its contents are selected. If a box is unshaded, then its
contents will be left alone. Simply hold down
[Windows: Ctrl; Mac:  ] and click a box to change its select status.
◙ The middle staff (with quarter notes) is not highlighted so it will not be edited.
» The highlighted items can now be edited as a single group.
5. You can also use keyboard shortcuts to achieve this. Press Enter at the point you wish the selection to start, then
extend the selection using Alt + up/down/left/right arrows
You can extend the selection by a measure too Windows: Ctrl + Alt + up/down/left/right arrows; Mac:  + Alt +
up/down/left/right arrows.
Drawing a highlight over two staves.
Select and Highlight