Noteman says: See Tutorial 4: Editing your music for a demonstration of these features.
The Selection tool is Finale's universal editing tool. It can be used to select, move, delete, copy, paste, or otherwise edit any region of measures and virtually any individual item in the score.
You can use this tool to copy music (from a single note to the entire score) from one place to another—even from one Finale document to another. Clicking a musical element—such as articulations, chord symbols, lyrics, expressions, MIDI controller data, and so on—allows you to select, move, nudge, edit, or erase it, without disturbing the other existing elements of the music in that region. For more advanced editing, double-click the element to switch to the appropriate tool.
Related articles:
- Articulations
- Augmentation and diminution
- Beaming
- Beat positions
- Copying music
- Cue notes
- Elapsed time
- Erasing
- Exploding and imploding music
- Headless notes
- Measures
- Measure layout
- Mid-score instrument changes
- Multimeasure rests
- Multiple voices
- Music spacing
- Piano reductions
- Rebarring music
- Selecting music
- Stems
- Ties
- Transposing music
- Whole rests
Work faster with:
- Contextual menus (Depending on what you click in the score, the Selection tool displays the corresponding contextual menu.)
- Metatools
- Keyboard shortcuts and special mouse clicks
Tip: You can undo any Selection tool operation by choosing Edit > Undo (
