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Selecting and editing lines of lyrics

Selecting and editing lines of lyrics - Sibelius Tutorial

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Selecting and editing lines of lyrics

- [Instructor] Sometimes it's helpful to be able to select a single line of lyrics across the length of one system, for copying, pasting, moving, editing, or deleting. A good example is the second line of lyrics in our refrain, which needs to be put into italics. Rather than non-contiguously selecting every single little lyric or syllable, to select them and italicize them, there's a quicker way to do that, and that is to Select More. The Select More command can quickly make system-length, linear selections of any text, not just lyrics, and any other objects like cord symbols, for example. It's like a quick filter for one system worth of one specific object. So to select a system-length line of lyrics, go ahead and select, or click on one word in the line, it doesn't matter which word, I'm just going to go ahead and click on this first word in the line. And then now we need to use the Select More command. It's in the…

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