You can erase any individual element of music from any specified region: lyrics, chord symbols, articulations, and so on, without removing any actual notes. If you want, you can also quickly erase all elements, including notes, from the desired region.
To erase everything from a selected region
- Choose the Selection tool
and select a region. See Selecting music for some region-selecting shortcuts. - Press
If you want to remove the measures too, double-click until the full measure stack is selected and press DELETE. Pressing DELETE without a full
stackA slash through a number indicates the note should be raised a half step (opposed to a sharp preceding the number, which indicates a sharp added to that specific pitch, which could mean more than a half step). The Finale Numerics font includes slash characters that can be added to inversions or pre-slashed characters. selection erases the music without deleting the measures themselves.
To erase a note, rest, or chord (Simple Entry)
- Choose the Simple Entry tool
. - Choose the Eraser Tool
and click the note, rest or chord. The entire note, rest, or chord disappears, and the music that follows it slides to the left to fill the space.
To erase a note from a chord (Simple Entry)
- Choose the Simple Entry tool . The Simple Entry palette appears.
- Choose the Eraser tool and click directly on the notehead to be erased.
To erase a note from a chord (Speedy Entry)
- Choose the Speedy Entry tool
. Click the measure in question. - Click the notehead you want to delete. You can also use the arrow keys to position the insertion bar and crossbar on the notehead.
- Press
To erase selected elements from a selected region
- Choose the Selection tool and select a region. See Selecting music for some region-selecting shortcuts.
- Choose Edit > Clear Selected Items (or, right
- Check the items you would like to clear. Uncheck Entries if you would like to clear individual entry items.
- Click OK (or press
