Cannot select multiple bars
Hello,
I have been scanning the forum for hours to try and find help with selecting multiple bars in musescore to transpose a part. Everywhere I look it tells me to use the shift key, but if I do this all that happens is that the score is being played as a midi file. It is not possible for me to select more than one bar. Why is this and how can this be fixed? It is very annoying and means I am extremely limited in my use of msuescore. Thank you for your help.
Kind regards, Verena
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If you are doing as the other forum say and pressing the shift key while you click another measure then it sounds like your shortcuts got fubar. In that case you need to revert to factory settings. https://musescore.org/en/handbook/revert-factory-settings
There are multiple ways of selecting things, so let's try a few.
1) Click an empty place in the first measure to select it (blue rectangle should display around it). Then Shift+click an empty place in the last measure. This should extend the selection from the first measure to the last.
Or:
2) Click an empty place in the first measure to select it. Then press Shift+Ctrl+right (the right cursor key), which will move the cursor right one measure (Ctrl makes the cursor move by measure) and also exten the selection while you are at it (Shift does that).
Or:
3) Hold Shift while dragging the mouse to select. A rectangle should appear while you drag.
All of these methods involve Shift, not sure which of them you were trying, or if you were somehow doing something different.
In reply to There are multiple ways of by Marc Sabatella
Also, if these dont work, check if your Shift key is working ;) Also try the bigger Shift key, the one thats on the right side of keyboard. If that works, your left side Shift key is broken. ... or doesnt work on Musescore for some reason.