"Paste special"
As with word processors, give another special flavor of paste with additional options
1. Paste current selection with just notes, no fingering/annotation
2. Paste rhythmic structure only, as rests, no notes
3. Paste current selection in reverse order
4. Paste just fingering/annotation onto existing notes
etc.
Comments
Also might be you want to paste as another voice.
In reply to Also might be you want to by ratz
Agreed -- many times, I have wished there was a more direct way to ask MS to paste a selection into a separate voice. There is a way to achieve the same effect by pasting into a staff and then exchanging voices, but I find it a cumbersome and error prone.
In reply to Agreed -- many times, I have by mtherieau
I really need to paste as another voice.
In reply to I really need to paste as by ratz
Have you tried using "Edit->Voices->Exchange Voice 1-2"? That's one of the six voice exchange operations available. Also, at times I find it easier to create a temporary extra instrument staff to perform voice exchange operations.
In reply to Have you tried using by mtherieau
Well, there is some workaround. But it would be more easy to create some feature for this.
In reply to Well, there is some by ratz
Easy for who?
In reply to Easy for who? by ChurchOrganist
LOL! I think the sentiment could be expressed as: "some voice manipulations would be easier if MS supported a way to paste into a specific voice". Of course it may not be very easy to develop such a feature, and this feature may not be high priority for many users. I read the comment as: this is an important feature request for ratz as a MS user.
In reply to LOL! I think the sentiment by mtherieau
And indeed I wholeheartedly agree :)
I was merely pointing out that the devs might not think it was easy :)
It might be worth looking at how Finale handles this.
It has a dialogue box in which you can select the different categories of item that you want to be affected by group operations.
When you have selected the ones you want you can quite happily delete and copy and paste groubs of objects knowing that only the ones you have ticked will be affected.
One of the features of Finale I miss :)
In reply to It might be worth looking at by ChurchOrganist
Me too. There have been a number of other discussions that have touched on this, and it seems to me a number of apparently unrelated requests could be handled nicely with such a facility - especially if it also dealt with the issue of voices. Finale does this using a different mechanism: an option to show only the current voice ("layer" in Finale, but it's same thing). In that mode, you can go to voice 1 and see only the contents of that voice, copy something to the clipboard, then switch to voice 2, see only the contents of that voice, paste, and the contents of the clipboard (which were originally in voice 1) are pasted into voice 2. It's not really very elegant, though, and I think MuseScore could probably come up with a better way of integrating that type of facility with one to control which items are copied.
Great!
In reply to Great! by user906505459
Note this discussion was seven years ago. A "Selection Filter" was added to the View menu since then and it does pretty much everything described here.