Moving and duplicating with the bar handles

This function allows you to move or copy the contents of a whole bar to one or several other bars. You can select which elements in the bar will be included in the operation.

1. Make sure that the filter bar is visible.

   If the filter bar is not visible, click the “Set up Window Layout” button on the toolbar and activate the Filters option.

2. On the filter bar, make sure that the “Bar Handles” option is activated.

   Now, each bar in the score is shown with a handle in the upper left corner.

   

   Figure: Bar handles

3. Double-click on the handle of the bar from which you want to copy or move symbols.

   The Bar Copy dialog appears.

   

4. Make sure that only the symbol types that you want to move/copy are checked.
5. If you have several subsequent bars to which you want to copy symbols, set the “Repeats” value to this number of bars.

   If you only want to copy symbols from one bar to another, make sure that “Repeats” is set to 1. This option is only available for copying, not for moving.

6. If you want this dialog to appear every time you perform the move/copy operation, activate “Show Dialog”.
7. Click OK to close the dialog.
8. To copy the specified event types to another bar, hold down Alt, click on the bar handle of the first bar and drag it to the “target” bar.

   To move the event types instead of copying them, drag the bar handle without holding down Alt.

   If you activated “Show Dialog”, the Bar Copy dialog appears, allowing you to confirm your settings.

   Click OK to close the dialog and perform the operation.

Result

If you activated “Note Symbols”, the note symbols are copied from the “source” bar and pasted onto notes at the same positions in the “target” bar. If there is a note symbol for a certain note in the “source” bar, but no note at the corresponding position in the “target” bar, the symbol is ignored.

The actual positions of notes are used as a basis for this operation – not the displayed positions.

If you copy the note symbols from the first bar to the second bar…

…only symbols that find corresponding note positions in the second bar are copied.

• If you activated other types of symbols, these are simply moved to the same graphical position in the “target” bar.

• If you set “Repeats” to a number larger than 1, the same symbols are pasted into that number of bars (starting from the one you drag the bar handle to).

• If you do not hold down Alt when dragging the bar handle, the symbols (and other event types specified in the dialog) are removed from the “source” bar.

Important

If there already are symbols (or other objects) of the specified types in the “target” bars, these are removed.