Selecting and Editing Regions of the Score

Editing a score usually involves adding, selecting, modifying, and deleting objects, such as notes and lyrics. However, some methods of editing a score, such as Edit Copy and Paste, are based on selecting a region of the score. A region may cover a range of measures and beats, and a range of one or more adjacent staves.

Musician displays a gray background for the currently selected region, as illustrated below:

NOTE: The background color for the region will be light red instead of blue if you are working with performance (MIDI) graphs.

To select a region of the score:

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To select the entire score (all of the measures in all of the staves):

Choose the Select All command in the Edit menu.

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Type CTRL+A.

To remove the region selection:

Hit the ESC key.

To extend the region selection:

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While holding down the mouse button and CTRL key, drag the mouse to the intended end of the region. Then release the mouse button and CTRL key.

To select the entire range of one or more adjacent staves:

Click the Select Staff button among the staff controls to select one staff. While holding down the SHIFT key, click another staff to select it and all of the other staves between it and the first selected staff. For details, see Select Staff.

Once you have selected a region, many commands in the Region and Edit menus are available. For example, you can Remove Inaudible Notes in a Selected Region, or Remove Rests Smaller Than a rest duration that you specify. You can also use the Edit menu clipboard commands Cut, Copy, Paste, and Clear, as described next.