Selecting Notes and Bars

Selecting Notes and Bars

There are many actions in ScanScore that require a note or a range of notes to be selected. Here is how to do that:

Selecting a Single Note or Element

Click the note or element. Look for the hand-shaped cursor: 

Selecting Several Notes

You can select several notes (they don't have to be next to each other) by clicking them while pressing the notes one by one. Look for the hand-shaped cursor. This is a fast way to add missing staccato or accent markings to notes.

Select a Range of Notes and/or Elements

Drag a rectangle around the range you want to select.

Select One Bar (In One Staff)

Place the cursor in that bar and press the Shift key.

Select One Bar (Whole System)

Press and hold the Ctrl key. If you move the cursor to a bar now, it turns into a double arrow:  Now click the measure to select it (in all staves).

Select a Range of Bars (Whole System)

Hold the Ctrl and Shift keys pressed. Now click the first and last bar of the range you want to select.

Select a Bar Line

Click directly to the left of the first bar of the line you want to select. The whole line will now be selected.

Select a Staff (Instrument)

Double-click directly to the left of the first bar of the staff you want to select. All the lines of the staff/instrument will now be selected.

Select all Elements on the Current Page

There is the command "Select all" in the Edit Menu, or the shortcut Ctrl+A.