Large selections

You can make large selections, including selecting the contents of whole staves or the whole flow.

Select everything in a specific area

You can use the Marquee Tool to specify an area in which you want to select everything.

Select everything in the whole flow
  • Press Ctrl/Cmd-A.

  • Choose Edit > Select All.

Select everything on a single staff
  • Select the first note on the staff, hold down Shift, and select the last note on the staff.

  • Select the first note on the staff and choose Edit > Select To End Of System or Edit > Select To End Of Flow.

  • Make a marquee selection that includes the staff you want to select.

Select everything on multiple adjacent staves
  • Select one whole staff at the top/bottom of the range of staves you want to select and press Shift-Up Arrow or Shift-Down Arrow until all the staves you want are selected.

  • Select one whole staff at the top/bottom of the range of staves you want to select and Shift-click the staff at the other end of the range of staves you want to select.

  • Make a marquee selection that includes the staves you want to select.

Select more of the currently selected types of items

You can use Edit > Select More (Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-A) to expand your current selection horizontally and incrementally to other items of the same types and in the selected voices and staves in both Write mode and Engrave mode. For items that span multiple bars and systems, they are selected in the earliest bar/system in which they exist.

  1. The first expansion is to the boundaries of the current bar, both to the left and right. If there is nothing to select within the bar, such as if you selected a whole note in a 4/4 bar, Dorico Pro automatically advances to the second expansion.

  2. The second expansion in page view is to the boundaries of the current system, both to the left and right. In galley view, the second expansion is to the rest of the flow, as there is only a single system in galley view.

  3. In page view, the third expansion is to the entire flow.

Select everything in the system within a range of beats/bars

You can use the system track to select a region of beats/bars and then select everything on all staves in the system within that region.

Tip

If you want to select only a certain type of item, such as lyrics or dynamics, you can then use the corresponding filters.