Copying the Format of a Part to Other Parts

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Copying the Format of a Part to Other Parts

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Using commands in the Part menu, you can specify many details about how a part is formatted: the page setup, overall font size, horizontal and vertical spacing,font size for types of text, showing or hiding of types of music annotations, showing or hiding of instrument names, hiding empty staves and displaying "easy notes".

Some of the Part menu commands let you apply formatting characteristics not only to the currently viewed part, but also to other parts that you specify in a dialog box. Some other Part menu commands let you apply formatting characteristics only to the currently viewed part.

If you have prepared a part with formatting characteristics that you would like to apply to other parts, there is an easy way to do that.

prcarrow To copy the format of one part to other parts:

1.Select the part you want to copy, using the Select Part command in the Part menu.
2.Choose the Copy Formatting to Other Parts command in the Format menu.

Composer will display the Copy Formatting to Other Parts dialog box.

3.In the dialog box, select the parts to which you wish to copy the formatting, and click OK.