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PreSonus Notion 6 - Notation Software (Boxed) User Manual

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6.5

Quickly Highlight a Measure

To quickly highlight certain staves (same measure):

1 . Ensure your Music Cursor is the Pointer, then either:

>

Double-click anywhere in the measure, or:

>

Press Alt + A

» Notion places an empty box in this one measure in all staves in the system . Only the staff you clicked is selected . If
this is all you need, you are done with this procedure .

2 . To also include one or more of the currently unselected measures, hold down [Windows:

Ctrl

; Mac:

] and click

anywhere inside an empty box . In the example below, only the middle instrument is highlighted . By clicking the top

box, the measure’s two top instruments are highlighted .

Quickly select the two top instruments.

Quickly Highlight an Entire Part

You can highlight a certain instrument throughout your score in just a few keystrokes:

1 . With the Pointer, click anywhere in the staff for the particular instrument you want to highlight .
2 . Press the keyboard shortcut of Windows:

Shift + Ctrl + A

; Mac:

Shift +

+ A

.

» Notion highlights only this instrument throughout the score .

Quickly Highlight Everything

To quickly highlight the entire score, either:

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Go to the Menu bar and select Edit > Select All, or

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Press Windows:

Ctrl + A

; Mac:

+ A

.

» Notion highlights all items in your score .