Edit menu
How to get there
The Edit menu is one of PrintMusic’s unchanging
menus.
What it does
You can find an assortment of editing commands
in the Edit menu including controls for cut, copy, and paste, adding/deleting measures.
- Undo.
As you edit a file, PrintMusic automatically saves your operations so
they can be quickly reversed if you choose Undo from the Edit menu. See
Undo.
- Redo. Choose
Redo perform the previous undo action. You can also use the Main tool
Bar icon to redo and action. If you have performed too many undo actions
in a row, use the redo to replace the actions removed. See Undo.
- Select All. You can use this command
with most of PrintMusic’s tools. In a number of cases, you can exclude
(deselect) one handle at a time from the selection by shift-clicking its
handle.
- Cut. After selecting a region of music
with the Selection tool, choose Cut to place the selected music on the
Clipboard and simultaneously remove the music from the score. (PrintMusic
asks you if you want to remove only the music, leaving behind rests, or
if you want to remove the selected beats or measures entirely.) Once you’ve
placed the cut music on the Clipboard, you can paste it to another place
in your score or into another PrintMusic document.
- Copy. After selecting a region of music
with the Selection tool (or text while using the Text tool etc.), choose
Copy to place a duplicate of the selected music or text on the Clipboard;
you are now ready to paste to another place in your score or another PrintMusic
document. (You can’t paste copied PrintMusic music into another program.)
- Insert. Choose Insert if you want to
insert whatever music you’ve cut or copied to the Clipboard between two
existing beats or measures. First tell PrintMusic where you want the material
inserted by selecting any amount of music just after the desired point
of insertion. See Copying music for an illustration.
- Paste. Choose Paste if you
want whatever music you’ve cut or copied to the Clipboard to paste over
(replace) the music in the target document (first use the Selection tool
to select the area of music you want to replace). See Copying music for an illustration.
- Paste Multiple. Select a target region and then choose this option open the Paste Multiple dialog box where you can paste multiple copies of the source material to the target region. You can replicate the source material as many times as you want either vertically or horizontally.
- Move/Copy Layers. This command provides
a way to move music from one of PrintMusic’s transparent staff layers
to another. You can even swap the music between layers—if, for example,
you mistakenly entered several stems-down notes in Layer 1, which you
intended to use only for stems-up (upper) voices. See Move/Copy
Layers dialog box for details; this command only affects full-measure selections.
- Clear All Items. When
you choose Clear All Items, PrintMusic removes the contents
of the selected music (whether or not you’ve selected entire measures),
leaving equivalent rests behind. (This command performs the same function
as highlighting measures and pressing the Backspace key.)
- Add Measures. When you choose Add,
PrintMusic asks you how many new blank measures you want to add (in all
staves) to the end of the piece. Enter the number of measures you want added, and click
OK. (This command performs the same function as context-clicking the
Measure tool.) Add/Insert Measures
- Choose Insert Measure Stack if you want
to insert a
you've cut or copied to the Clipboard. First tell PrintMusic where you want
the material inserted by selecting any amount of music just after the
desired point of insertion.
This option is only available if
you copied a full measure stack to the clipboard.
If the music on the
Clipboard was copied from ten staves, you don't have to insert the contents
of all ten staves in the target score. For example, you can select (highlight)
a measure in only four staves of the target score; PrintMusic will insert
the measures in all staves.
- Delete Measure Stack. When you choose Delete Measure Stack,
PrintMusic removes the selected measures from the piece completely—from
all staves—so that there are now fewer measures in the piece. (This command
performs the same function as highlighting measures and pressing the Delete
key.)
- Multimeasure Rests: Break · Create.
Use the Multimeasure Rests submenu to break existing multimeasure rests
or create multimeasure rests. Remember that you must be in Page View to
change multimeasure rests.
Use the Break
command to separate the selected multimeasure rest into separate measures
of rests. Use this command if you simply don’t want the measures grouped
at all, or if you want to create more than one multimeasure rest out of
one long multimeasure rest.
Use the Create
command to create a multimeasure rest out of the selected measures. PrintMusic
creates a multimeasure rest grouping.
See Multimeasure
rests.
- Edit Measure Attributes. Select this
item to display the Measure Attributes dialog box where you can set the
barline style. See Measure
Attributes dialog box.
- Measurement Units: Inches · Centimeters.
In a number of PrintMusic dialog boxes, you’re asked to specify a measurement:
the margins of each page, for example. Using the submenu of the Measurement
Units command, you can select the measurement unit you want PrintMusic
to understand—and display—in all of its dialog boxes.
- Program Options. Choose this command
to display the Program Options dialog box, where you may set the default
folders for your music and templates. See Program
Options Dialog Box.