Copying chord names
First I would like to thank you for this wunderfull program. I don't know if this question should be here or in futer reqeusts.
I use M.S. for writing arangements for an accordion band, first, second and third accordion, and in the score I place the chord names above first accordion and then I print sepperate parts to give to rhe musicians, but for second and third accordion I have to add the chord names again. I tryd it with copy and paste but that doesn't work.
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to have chordnames on all parts has been discussed, but not yet implemented.
For now you will have to copy them one by one, I believe.
Someone else may have an easier way.
Regards,
In reply to The ability by xavierjazz
If you copy and paste the entire 1st staff to the 2nd and 3rd, it'd copy the chords too.
Of course not a viable option of you entered notes into 2nd and 3rd staff already...
In reply to If you copy and paste the by Jojo-Schmitz
So copy the staff with the chirds, paste into a scratch staff, then delete all the notes, leaving just the chords. You can then copy and paste this to other staves.
In reply to So copy the staff with the by Marc Sabatella
But that would lose the already existing notes in the target staff, wouldn't it?
Unless you move them to a different voice first, that is...
In reply to But that would lose the by Jojo-Schmitz
When I said to copy the original to the scratch staff, I mean, and then use the scratch staff as the source - delete the notes from that, not from the original. And if voice one in the source is empty, then no, you don't lose anything in the destination.
In reply to When I said to copy the by Marc Sabatella
But if you then copy this scratch staff to the targets staff you'd overwrite the existing notes there with... nothing!
Unless you moved them to a different and unused voice first. And swap them back after the copy
In reply to But if you then copy thes by Jojo-Schmitz
Weird. I would have sworn it worked the way I described in 1.0, because i remember using this in the first major score I did. But it' possible I was just remembering that hitting delete leaves the chords behind, and I used that to prepopulate the chords in a staff *before* entering notes. Anyhow, you're right, it doesn't seem to work now, so thanks for the correction! But you can still use this method to enter chords *before* entering notes. And if you've already entered notes, you can still use a scratch staff to get the job done - first copy the *destination* to a scratch staff, then copy the source to the destination, then delete the destination notes, then copy the scratch staff back. Not necessarily any easier than using voice switching, though.
In reply to Weird. I would have sworn it by Marc Sabatella
Thanks for the quick reply. Copying to an empty staf works, but is stil a lot of work.