PreSonus Notion 6 - Notation Software (Boxed) - Manual (Page 91)

6.4
To inform Notion which items in your score you want to edit, copy, or delete, you first select or highlight them . With
click-select, you click your mouse on one or more existing items . With highlight, you “draw” a box around them .
Click-Select Items
With your cursor as the Pointer (select tool), you can click-select an existing item in your score to edit it .
8 A click-selected item turns orange in color to show it is selected .
8 To click-select multiple items, hold down the Shift key as you click any number and mix of items anywhere in the
score . Release the key only when you select all the items you want . Each item you click is orange in color .
8 To select a chord, double-click any note in the chord .
8 If you have a selection highlighted, you can also press Enter to select all the notes within the selection
Highlight Items
To quickly select large areas of your score, you can draw a highlight box around any number of contiguous items to create
a range selection .
1 . Ensure your cursor is the Pointer . If needed, press Esc to switch to this cursor style .
2 . Hold down a mouse click at the starting point and drag the Pointer . You can start and end in any direction within
one staff or across multiple staves (as in the example below) .
» Notion highlights the area you select .
3 . Release your click when you have highlighted the area you want .
TIP: To quickly highlight a large area or multiple pages, create a small
highlight at the beginning . Then hold down the Shift key and click an item in your score at the end point . Notion
automatically highlights all measures in-between .
4 . To speed editing when you have multiple parts in a score, Notion draws boxes around other markings in other
staves that are also at this location . If a box is shaded, its contents are selected . If a box is unshaded, then its
contents will be left alone . Simply hold down
[Windows: Ctrl ; Mac:  ] and click a box to change its select status .
◙ The middle staff (with quarter notes) is not highlighted so it will not be edited.
» The highlighted items can now be edited as a single group .
5 . You can also use keyboard shortcuts to achieve this . Press Enter at the point you wish the selection to start, then
extend the selection using Alt + up/down/left/right arrows
You can extend the selection by a measure too using Shift + Alt + up/down/left/right arrows
Drawing a highlight over two staves.
Select and Highlight