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RESULT
All notes and notations in the area within the gray rectangle are selected.
NOTE
Only items completely within the area are selected. However, if any part of a note/tie chain is
within the area, the whole note/tie chain is selected.
RELATED LINKS
Status bar on page 48
Selection tools on page 49
Large selections
You can make large selections, including selecting the contents of whole staves or the whole
ow.
Select everything in a specic area
You can use the Marquee Tool to specify an area in which you want to select
everything.
Select everything in the whole ow
● Press Ctrl/Cmd-A .
● Choose Edit > Select All.
Select everything on a single staff
● Select the rst note on the staff, hold down Shift , and select the last note on the
staff.
● Select the rst note on the staff and choose Edit > Select To End Of System or
Edit > Select To End Of Flow.
● Make a marquee selection that includes the staff you want to select.
Select everything on multiple adjacent staves
● Select one whole staff at the top/bottom of the range of staves you want to select
and press Shift-Up Arrow or Shift-Down Arrow until all the staves you want are
selected.
● Select one whole staff at the top/bottom of the range of staves you want to select
and Shift -click the staff at the other end of the range of staves you want to select.
● Make a marquee selection that includes the staves you want to select.
Select more of the currently selected types of items
You can use Edit > Select More ( Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-A ) to expand your current selection
horizontally and incrementally to other items of the same types and in the selected
voices and staves in Write mode. For items that span multiple bars and systems, they
are selected in the earliest bar/system in which they exist.
1
The rst expansion is to the boundaries of the current bar, both to the left and
right. If there is nothing to select within the bar, such as if you selected a whole
note in a 4/4 bar, Dorico SE automatically advances to the second expansion.
2
The second expansion in page view is to the boundaries of the current system,
both to the left and right. In galley view, the second expansion is to the rest of the
ow, as there is only a single system in galley view.
3
In page view, the third expansion is to the entire ow.
Write mode
Editing and selecting
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