User Manual
6.8
For exibility and speed, Notion oers dierent ways to change items you placed in the score area. Selecting the
method to use depends partially on what you are doing at the moment and partially on your work style.
To remove/change items you placed on a score, you can:
8 Click-select and delete any number of items, or
8 Delete what you highlight, or
8 Delete an entire part (instrument), or
8 Substitute a new duration for a note/rest – or multiple notes/rests at once.
Also, the next topic discusses Clear Special where you can quickly delete your choice of score marks.
Click-Select and Delete
Clicking is a convenient method to delete a single item or to delete any mix of multiple
items. This is especially useful if the multiple items are not next to each other.
1. Have your cursor be the Pointer. If it is currently the Music Cursor, press the Esc key.
2. To select:
> A single item, click it once.
» The item turns orange in color to show it is selected.
> Multiple items, hold down the Shift key as you click any number of dierent items. Release the Shift key only
when you select all the items you want.
» All items remain in an orange color to show they are selected.
3. Complete one of the following:
4. Press either the Delete or Backspace key, or
5. Select either Edit > Delete or Edit > Clear in the Menu bar.
» The existing items disappear. Any remaining notes and rests in an edited measure move to the left.
Highlight and Delete
If you need to delete multiple items across many staves, or spanning a large area of
your score, this method deletes everything in an area you highlight.
1. Hold down a mouse click at any starting point and drag the Pointer. You can start and end in any direction within
one sta or across multiple staves.
» Notion highlights the area you select.
2. Release your click when you have highlighted the area you want to remove.
3. 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, then its contents are selected. If a box is unshaded, its contents are
left alone. Simply hold down WindoWs: Ctrl Mac: – and click a box to change its select status.
Delete and Substitute