Temporarily Hiding or Permanently Removing Chord Names

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Temporarily Hiding or Permanently Removing Chord Names

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You can temporarily hide chord names so that they are not displayed. Composer shows or hides chord names independently in each score part. For example, you can show chord names in a keyboard or piano part and hide them in a vocal part.

You can also permanently remove chord names from the song.

prcarrow To hide chord names in the current score part:

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

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

2.In the Chord Name menu, turn off the check mark by the Show Chord menu item.

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Click to toggle off the Show Chord Names temporarily_hiding_or_pe button in the Chord Name Palette.

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Type "qscn" for Quick Show (or Hide) Chord Name.

prcarrow To show chord names that have been hidden:

B8Repeat the above procedure to toggle on the Show Chord Names check mark in the Chord menu, or click to toggle on the Show Chord Names temporarily_hiding_or_pe1 button.

prcarrow To permanently remove all chord names from the song.

B851Choose the Remove Chord Names command in the Chord menu.