John's right -- there are lots of shortcuts.
The best thing I can suggest to new Sibelius users is to learn to use
the escape key -- hit it whenever you're in doubt (yes, you can still
have things selected that you're not viewing onscreen at the moment),
and sometimes hitting it twice for insurance is wise. Not difficult,
just not something that Finale users have had to think about.
One big paradigm shift when moving from Finale to Sibelius is that
everything is selectable, there being no "tools" the way that Finale has
them, which you have to choose before being able to select specific
things. Yes, I know that Fin2k8 has the new selection tool but even
that's a tool and if you're in one of the other tools, you have to exit
it by selecting the Selection Tool. And then once you select something
with the Selection Tool you are placed into the appropriate tool for
that item, and have to consciously exit that tool to work on something
else, so you're constantly having to think in terms of "tools" while
using Finale.
With Sibelius, you only need to think of what you want to do next.
Instead of tools there are shortcuts or menu selections to remember or
navigate but once you place something, you can point at anything else
and work with it without having to change to a selection tool.
So anything which is selected will be affected by what you do, and if
anything is selected, the right-click menu will only show what is
applicable for that item (or those items -- Sibelius allows ctrl-click
so that you can select non-contiguous items to work on.)
David H. Bailey
John Howell wrote:
At 4:11 PM -0700 10/31/07, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Right clicking does not bring up any context menu that has OTHER in
it. I get Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Capture Idea, Voice, Hide/Show,
Color and Apply Color...
It's just something you have to learn. What happened is that you had
something selected, so you got that short menu of things you might want
to do to the thing you had selected. Click on a blank space on the page
(or hit escape a few times) to deselect anything that's selected, then
right click on a blank part of the page. What you then get IS the
Create menu. It's a shortcut; there are LOTS of shortcuts, and I've
only learned a few at this point, but I remember the ones I use.
Just part of the learning curve.
John
However, in the menu, there is Other buried under Create......
Sibelius 5.1.......frustrating......
Richard Smith wrote:
Eric this may be what you want.
1. Right click on a blank part of the page for the context menu. At
the bottom of the menu is "other". Open that up.
2. Select "change instrument"
3. Pick an instrument from the list.
4. Click the now blue (="loaded") arrow where you want to change the
instrument. You will get a transposition and key and/or clef
change as needed as well as a text instruction to the performer to
change to the instrument.
5. If you want to change the stave for the entire score, click in the
left margin just to the left of the staff. It will change the
staff and look as if the new instrument had been the choice fromt
he beginning.
I think that having multiple ways of doing things has a lot to do
with familiarity. I really like Sibelius' step time entry. There are
so many ways to enter music that I am constantly changing my approach
to fit the particular circumstance. Conversely, I find Finale's
Speedy Entry restrictive but many of the workers on this list would
certainly disagree. These two are just "differently abled" and the
versatility is good for us all.
Richard Smith
http://www.rgsmithmusic.com
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