Reducing/Enlarging

You can enlarge or reduce these elements of your music: a staff, a system, or a page. The limits of the Resize tool are 10% to 1000%.

To reduce or enlarge a staff or system

You must be in Page View to reduce or enlarge a staff or system.

1. Click the Resize tool  .
2. Click to the left of a staff (to resize the staff), or to the left of or between any two staves (to resize the system). The Resize Staff (or Staff System) dialog box appears, asking you how you want to resize the staff or system.
3. Enter the desired reduction or enlargement percentage. Specify the range of systems you want to affect. Click OK.
4. Choose Update Layout from the Edit Menu. To restore a staff or system to its original size, click to the left of the staff or system with the Resize tool. When the dialog box appears, enter 100 (%) and click OK.

To reduce or enlarge all the music on a page (or the entire piece)

Use this technique for reducing or enlarging the printed size of the music itself, including text and expressions (without changing the actual page size). You must be in Page View to reduce or enlarge a page.

1. Click the Resize tool  .
2. Click the upper-left corner of the first page you want to resize. The Resize Page dialog box appears.
3. Enter the reduction or enlargement percentage.
4. Specify the pages you want to resize.Click OK. As always, whenever you perform an operation that changes the measure widths, you should update the measure layout.
5. Choose Update Layout from the Edit Menu.

To reduce or enlarge fretboards

See Resize Fretboards dialog box.

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