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Entering and editing notes
Selecting notes
Selecting notes
In the operations described in the rest of this chapter, you often work on selected
notes. The text below describes how to select notes:
By clicking
To select a note, click on the note head with the Object Selection tool. The note head
gets colored to indicate that it is selected.
• To select more notes, hold down [Shift] and click on them.
• To deselect notes, hold down [Shift] and click on them again.
• If you hold down [Shift] and double-click on a note, this note and all the following
notes in the same staff are selected.
Using a selection rectangle
1. Click in an empty area in the score with the Object Selection tool and keep the
mouse button pressed.
2. Drag the mouse pointer to create a selection rectangle.
You can drag to select notes on several voices or staves if you wish.
3. Release the mouse button.
All notes with note heads inside the rectangle are selected.
If you want to deselect one or more of the notes, hold down [Shift] and click on them.
Using the keyboard
By default, you can step through (and select) the notes in the staff using the left and
right arrow keys. If you press [Shift], you can select a series of notes as you step
through them.
• If you are working with polyphonic voices, you step through the notes on the
current track, i.e. in a split system, you step through the staves.
• If you want to use other keys for selecting notes, you can customize the settings in
the Key Commands dialog (in the Navigate category).
Selecting tied notes
Longer notes are often displayed in the score as one note with a tie. If you intend to
select the entire note (e.
g. for deleting), you should select the first note, not the tied
note.
Selected notes
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There is a setting for this in the Preferences dialog (Scores–Editing page): If you
activate “Tied Notes selected as Single Units”, the whole note is selected, even if you
click on one of the tied notes.