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Notation reference
Notes
Notes are shapes that are positioned on staves to indicate musical pitches. Notes are most commonly shown with oval-shaped, round noteheads that are either filled or void depending on their duration, but there are many different designs of noteheads that you can use.
Notehead sets
A notehead set is a collection of related noteheads that together allow you to represent all the different noteheads required for the different durations used in music notation.
Changing the notehead design project-wide
You can change the notehead design of all noteheads project-wide; for example, if you are working on an educational project and want to show the note name in every notehead.

Changing the notehead design project-wide

You can change the notehead design of all noteheads project-wide; for example, if you are working on an educational project and want to show the note name in every notehead.

Procedure

Press Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-E to open Engraving Options.
In the category list, click Notes.
In the Noteheads section, choose one of the following options for Notehead design:
- Default size noteheads (smaller than Larger noteheads)
- Larger noteheads (Default)
- Note names
- Figurenotes© colors
Click Apply, then Close.

Result

The notehead design of all notes is changed project-wide.

Note

This does not change the notehead design of noteheads whose design you have changed individually; for example, if you changed selected notes to have diamond noteheads.