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3. Text To edit an existing text object, double-click it, or hit Return (on the main keyboard) To stop editing text, hit Esc To select all text in the current text object, type Ctrl+A or A For a new line while editing, hit Return (on the main keyboard) To make text bold/non-bold, click B (shortcut Ctrl+B or B) in the Text panel of the Properties
window. This (and italic/underlining) affects text you are about to type, a chunk of text you have selected, or the whole text object (or text objects) if it’s selected To make text italic/non-italic, click I (shortcut Ctrl+I or I) in the Text panel of the Properties window To reset a text style’s font to its default while editing it, type Ctrl+Alt+Space or ^-Space To make text underlined/non-underlined, click U (shortcut Ctrl+U or U) in the Text panel of the Properties window. Underlining text is very rare in music. To change the font or point size of text, change the value in the Text panel of the Properties window (although you should normally edit the text style instead) There are various other editing shortcuts: 5.12 Menus and shortcuts for full details.
If you just want to change the font/bold/italic/underlining/point size of a small amount of text, it’s fine to use the options on the Text panel of the Properties window. However, if you need to make more widespread adjustments, there are much more efficient ways: If you want to change all of the text in your score to use another font (e.g. to change the title,
instrument names, lyrics, technique instructions etc. to another font in a single operation), choose House Style Edit All Fonts, and choose a new Main Text Font If you want to change all the text throughout the score in just one particular text style, you should edit the text style itself instead ( 3.9 Edit Text Styles), because this will automatically change all existing text and also all new text you create in that style thereafter. For example, if you decide you want your lyrics in a different font, you should edit the text style rather than changing all the existing words manually. If you want to change quite a lot of text, but not all of it, e.g. to have a chorus in italics, define a new text style based on the most similar existing one and use that text style instead (see Changing the text style of existing text below if you have already entered the text in your score).
Selecting a line of text To select all text in a particular text style along a staff, select a single text item and then choose Edit Select Select More (type Ctrl+Shift+A or A). This allows you to: move all the items together with the mouse or arrow keys copy the text to the clipboard for pasting elsewhere in the score, or into another program (see
below) line them up if they end up out of alignment, e.g. lyrics and chord symbols: use Layout Align In a Row (shortcut Ctrl+Shift+R or R) or Layout Reset Position (shortcut Ctrl+Shift+P or P) – 8.1 Layout and formatting.
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