Changing the staff-relative placement of chord symbols

You can show individual chord symbols either above or below the staff, independently of your project-wide setting. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

Prerequisite

  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

  • If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing Graphic Editing button is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

  • You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

Procedure

  1. Select the chord symbols whose staff-relative placement you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Placement in the Chord Symbols group.
  3. Choose one of the following options:

    • Above

    • Below

Result

The staff-relative placement of the selected chord symbols is changed. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

Tip

  • You can choose to show chord symbols between the staves of grand staff instruments in each layout independently in Layout Options > Chord Symbols and Diagrams > Chord Symbols.

  • You can change the default placement of all chord symbols project-wide in Engraving Options > Chord Symbols > Position.