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1. Inputting whole staff, you’ll get a selected passage instead. You can then add/remove objects from the selection using Ctrl+click or -click. If you use this function a lot, changing the Drag Paper setting in the File Preferences General dialog (in the Sibelius menu on Mac OS X) allows you to select a passage simply by clicking and dragging (without holding down Shift or ). With multiple text selections, you can also extend a single selection by choosing Edit Select Select More (type Ctrl+Shift+A or A), which selects all similar text objects (i.e. in the same style) attached to the same staff within that system. This is a quick way of selecting a whole row of, say, chord symbols, lyrics, fingerings or expression marks. If you have a single note of a chord selected, Edit Select Select More selects all the notes in that chord; similarly, if you have a single note, rest or a whole chord selected, Edit Select Select More will select the whole bar. You can also use filters to make a multiple selection – 5.7 Filters and Find. Multiple selections are mainly useful for objects other than notes, chords and rests – e.g. to delete several articulations or bits of text.
Selected passages A “passage” is a continuous stretch of music – of any length from a couple of notes to the whole score, and for any number of staves from one to a complete orchestra. You can think of it as a “rectangle” of music – though this rectangle can run between systems and pages, and you can even include non-adjacent staves in a passage. In contrast to multiple selections, selected passages are mainly useful for doing things to several notes, chords and rests. There are two kinds of passages: normally, passages are surrounded by a single light blue box and can include any combination of staves in your score; system passages, by contrast, are surrounded by a purple double-box and include all the staves in your score. To select a passage by clicking: Click the note/chord/rest at one corner (e.g. the top left-hand corner) of the “rectangle” you want
to select. If you’re selecting from the start of a bar, it’s quicker just to click an empty part of the bar. Shift-click the note/chord/rest at the opposite (e.g. bottom right-hand corner) of the “rectangle.” Again, if you’re selecting to the end of a bar, just click an empty part of the bar. All selected objects will go colored and a light blue box will appear around the selection. The selection will also appear on the Navigator, which is useful for viewing passages that span multiple pages. To add further staves to the selection, hold down Ctrl or and click further staves; this can be used to add non-adjacent staves to the selection You can also exclude certain staves from a passage selection by holding down Ctrl or and clicking in turn on the staves you want to remove from the selection.
You can also make a passage selection using the Edit Select Select Bars dialog (shortcut Ctrl+Alt+A or A). This is useful if you know you want to select, say, the first 16 bars of a score, or want to select from the current position to the end of the score. The Make system selection option will make the resulting passage selection into a system passage. 56