Editor Context Menu Commands (Selection Present)

The following commands are available in the notation editor when one or more notation items are currently selected in the active staff. These can be accessed either by: hitting the right mouse button (on a two or three button mouse), or by pressing the "~" key on the computer keyboard. You do not need to use the shift key for this to work. After this action, the appropriate notation editor context menu pops up with the choices below:

• Cut: Cuts the selection to the clipboard
• Copy: Copies the selection to the clipboard
• Copy Special: Copies the portion of the selection that fits on screen to the clipboard as a graphic
• Clear: Clears the selection (no effect on clipboard)
• Selection: Edits the current selection (opens appropriate dialog)
• Beam: Beams the note flags of the selected notes
• Triplet: Turns the selected notes into a triplet
• Accent: Toggles the accent attribute of the selected notes
• Dotted: Marks subsequent notes and rests as being dotted notes
• Double-Dotted: Toggles the double dot attribute
• Slur: Slurs the selected notes
• Staccato: Toggles the staccato attribute of the selected notes
• Tenuto: Toggles the tenuto attribute
• Tied: Marks subsequent notes as being tied to the next note
• Stem Up: Toggles the upward stem attribute
• Stem Down: Toggles the downward stem attribute