Text Tool

The Text Tool is used to enter blocks of text—not only the title of your piece, but also any headers, footers, page numbers, copyright notices, performance notes, and similar text that appears on one or more pages—directly into the score; adjust, align, and position text blocks; and set fonts and styles for the text directly on-screen.

Click the Text Tool to display a menu for editing text, the Text Menu. Use the Text Menu to specify fonts and styles for the text in a text block, to align a text block, apply special effects or shapes around the text block, assign a text block to a measure or to a page, and specify what page or range of pages you want text blocks to appear on.

The menus will display checkmarks for settings of the selected text blocks (such as 10 pt. and bold). If you have more than one setting such as mixed fonts or multiple text blocks selected with different settings, no selection in the menus will be displayed. Select a new setting to change the setting. From the Edit Menu, choose Undo.

When no text block handles are selected, the menus show the default text block settings. These default settings can also be changed by selecting a new setting from the menu. You can undo the change by selecting Undo from the Edit Menu.

You can select more than one text block handle and apply settings to multiple text blocks as well as undo the changes you just made.

Editing inside text blocks can also be undone by selecting Undo from the Edit Menu. Changes made while in the Edit Text dialog box can be undone individually while in the dialog box. Once you have exited the dialog box, selecting Undo will revert the document to the state before entering the Edit Text dialog box.

When you click the Text Tool the Text Menu appears. Handles appear on each text block in the score.

Click the Text Tool to display the Text Menu. A handle appears on each text block in the score.
Click a text block handle or drag-enclose text block handles to select a text block or text blocks.
Shift-click a text block handle to add a text block to the selection. If a text block is already selected, remove the text block from the selection.
Double-click in the score to create an unbounded frame that expands as you enter text.
Double-click and drag in the score to create a bounded, fixed-size frame for text.
Double-click a text block handle, or control-click the handle and select Edit Text from the contextual menu to edit the text block. The frame surrounding the text appears. A cursor appears in the text block.
Shift-double-click a text block handle, or control-click the handle and select Edit Frame Attributes from the contextual menu to edit the text block’s attributes. The Frame Attributes dialog box appears.
Press delete for one or more selected text blocks, or control-click the handle and select Delete from the contextual menu to delete the selected text blocks.
Drag a selected text block handle to adjust the text block’s position in the score.

Contextual menus are reached by control-clicking on the handle of an object. A contextual menu will be displayed where you can select various items.

Menu item	What it does
Edit Frame Attributes	Display the Time Signature dialog box
Edit Text	Change the time signature to 2/2 until the next time change
Show	Change the time signature to 2/2 beamed as 4/4
Relink to Score (parts only)	Change the time signature to cut time beamed as 4/4
Unlink In All Parts (score only)	Change the time signature to 2/4 until the next time change
Relink In All Parts (score only)	Change the time signature to 3/4 until the next time change
Delete	Change the time signature to 4/4 until the next time change