Formatting Chord Names

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You can change font style, size, and bold and italic attributes of chord names. You can also specify how certain types of chord names should be displayed, such as Cdim versus C-.

prcarrow To change the font type, size of the text, or to change it to bold or italics:

B8In the General Procedures for Editing Text, see the procedure for Selecting Font Type, Size, and Properties.

prcarrow To specify how diminished, augmented, and other types of chords are displayed:

1.With the mouse, navigate to the Chord Name Palette.

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Type SHIFT+C. If the Clef Palette is displayed, type SHIFT+C a second time for the Chord Name Palette.

2.In the Chord Name Menu, choose the Chord Name Display Styles command.

  Composer will display the Chord Name Styles dialog box, as illustrated below:

  ChordName-Styles

3.For each of the types of chords, choose the way you want the chord to be displayed.
4.Click the Save As Default button if you wish the styles to be applied to all songs that you later create or import as MIDI files.
5.Click OK to apply the changes to the currently viewed score.

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