Copy and Paste Musescore Into Word Document

• Jan 10, 2023 - 15:15

I am using Windows 7 to write a Microsoft Word handout on melody transformations. Can anyone tell me how to copy a staff from Musescore and paste it into this Word document? When I copy the staff, it will not paste (or paste special) into Word. Can this be done some other way? Thank you for any assistance you can provide.


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Export your score as PNG image and insert the image into your document.
(I don't know if the screen snippet shortcut Win + Shift + s works under Windows 7)

In reply to by the_mnbvcx

MNBVCX,
Thanks for your reply. I exported 12 bars of the score as a PNG image. Then I opened that file and selected all 12 bars, which I copied to the clipboard. I then opened the Word file and tried to paste the copied image, but was unsuccessful. The paste option didn't show up. There must be a way. I'll find it. Thanks.

In reply to by timwmay

Comment by timwmay:

Thank you Timwmay. This method worked like a charm. I just selected the measure, went to the camera, positioned the rectangle around my selection to capture the image and hit "copy". Then I went to my Word document, found my spot and hit "paste".

Thanks to you, Jim6stringer, Robert Dusemund, and "mbvoc" for your helpful suggestions.

In reply to by rbeam@uwsuper.edu

The way you describe reminds me of a OpenOffice function that allows you to import .ly scores into OpenOffice via extension. This is not available with MuseScore 4 and was never present in previous versions. You can take screenshots or export to PNG. But you have to crop the images, either beforehand in a graphics program or with the crop function for images in Word.

In reply to by Robert Dusemund

Robert,
In addition to the camera technique, this is what I came up with. There may be an easier way, but this way worked for me.
1. For the sake of my example, I limited the score to a one measure “My Dog Has Fleas” file, which I then exported as a PNG file to my C drive.
2. I opened Microsoft Paint. Then I selected “open” and went to the PNG file on my C drive and brought the PNG file into Paint.
3. I then selected “home”, then “rectangular selection”. I drew a rectangle around the image I brought into Paint. Then I right clicked to “copy” which transfered the image to the clipboard.
4. Finally, I went to my word file, found the desired location, and clicked “paste”.Voila! The Musescore image came in right where I wanted it.

In reply to by rbeam@uwsuper.edu

As mentioned above, you can accomplish this in less steps:

In 3.6.2 there's a image capture camera icon in the topmost tool bar.

1) click MuseScore's camera icon

2) Move/Resize the box to outline the measures or staff you want and Ctrl/Command+C.

3) Open Word (or most any text editing software) and Ctrl/Command+C

I don't see the camera in MuseScore 4.

scorster

In reply to by scorster

Scorster,
Works like a charm!! Thanks. Using "Copy and Paste" commands instead of Control/command + C causes Microsoft Word to shut down. However, when it recovers, the pasted measures DO appear in the Word file. This shut down doesn't occur using Control/command + C. Many thanks for the tip.

I'll stick with Musescore 3.6.2, because Musescore 4 doesn't download to Windows 7.

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