This process won’t work unless the measure
in question has a Beat Chart (see Document
Options-Music Spacing or To
create a beat chart in one measure.
- Click the Measure tool
. Two stacked
handles appear on each barline.
- Click the second from the top barline handle
of the measure in question. The beat chart appears above the measure.
The top row of handles indicates the positions of the beats according
to the time signature (as they were before you respaced the music). By
dragging a handle on the bottom row, you can reposition a beat in all
staves at once.
When you click on the bottom barline handle,
a beat chart appears. The top row of handles indicates the positions
of the beats as they’d fall with linear spacing, and the bottom row of
handles allows you to move beat positions by dragging them.
- Drag the desired beat’s handle horizontally.
If you press shift while dragging, all handles to the right of the dragged
handle move in tandem. If you double-click between two top-row handles,
a new handle appears, which governs the position of the beat halfway between
the handles on either side.
- If you double-click any top-row handle (except
the first), the Beat Chart Element (#) dialog box appears. See
the Beat Chart dialog box
for more details.
