Selecting Notes with the Arrow Keys
You can select notes with the keyboard.
Procedure
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Do one of the following:
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Select the previous note in the staff by using the Left Arrow key.
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Select the next note in the staff by using the Right Arrow key.
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Select a series of notes by holding down Shift and using the Left Arrow or the Right Arrow key.
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Result
If you are working with polyphonic voices, you step through the notes on the current track, that is, in a split system, you step through the staves.
Note
If you want to use other keys for selecting notes, you can customize the settings in the Key Commands dialog (Navigate category).