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Positioning and editing text

Positioning and editing text - Sibelius Tutorial

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Positioning and editing text

- [Instructor] Once you have text in your score, you have a few options for moving and editing it. First, let's taLK about moving the text around on the page. To start with that, I'm going to take my score out of focus on staves view so we can see the whole score and a lot more text and I'm going to zoom on this area here where we have some text styles. To move a text style around, the most obvious thing to do is to click and drag on the text to change its position but it's generally best to avoid dragging anything around with the mouse in Sibelius so let me show you another, better way to make small, positional adjustments of text objects. I'm going to go ahead and undo, Control or Command Z. So first I'm going to remind you, make sure magnetic layout is on for now. So that's in the layout tab, magnetic layout group, here it is here and that way if any of the default positions of your text styles still need a little bit of…

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