How to delete
Ok, just one more and I'll go away quietly.
I'm just learning, so inevitably I am going to screw a measure up beyond fixing. Is there any way to just delete that measure, or restore it to empty, or something, so I don't have to keep starting over. And over. And over.
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See Measure operations
Click on a empty spot in the measure to select it, press Del to empty it, ctrl+Del to delete it. (Mac shortcuts are in the handbook page)
In reply to See Measure operations Click by [DELETED] 5
OK, I'm clicking and clicking and clicking all over the score and can't seem to select anything. Occasionally a blue box shows up (not today, yet) but I haven't been able to correlate that with anything I'm doing.
In reply to How? by cmwilson
OK, it turns out you have to click on a very particular place--just to the right of the measure bar, but NOT on the bar. OR on a line or space that has no notes but NOT on one that has notes.
In reply to Never mind... by cmwilson
Correct, that was what they meant when they said you need to click an "empty space" within the measure. Occasionally it can be helpful to zoom in to make it easier to isolate an empty space. Selecting can also be done with shift-drag.or via standard OS keyboard shortcuts (eg, click beginning of selection, shift click end, or shift-arrow to extend selection).
In reply to Correct, that was what they by Marc Sabatella
> Correct, that was what they meant when they said you need to click an "empty space" within the measure.
Well I clicked on a lot of "empty space" before finding just the right place to click.
In reply to > Correct, that was what they by cmwilson2
That's why zooming in helps - otherwise, it's often too hard to get the empty space rather than hitting something in the measure. If the space you right clicked was truly empty, it would have selected the measure, but sometimes the mouse pointer is just not precise enough to. Anyhow, the point i, there isn't just one particular zone to the right of the barline or whatever - it really is just a matter of making sure you really are getting an empty space, and zooming in helps. Or use the other methods I mentioned, which are normally faster and more precise anyhow (you can select partial measures that way)