Guessing here: you have a staff text field displaying multiple words. You wish to select all those words.
If that's what you want, double-click the text field. That will give you a cursor somewhere in the text. Then press Ctrl+A. This is the shortcut for Select All (in many applications and situations) and this will select all the text in that one text field.
In case you simply want to delete the staff text box, single-click it and press the Delete key. (I doubt this is what you need, but in case ...)
Word of advice for the future: Explain your question in great detail. It's VERY, VERY hard to give us too much detail. It's very easy to give us too little and this question has definitely reached that end of the scale.
No, double-click "activates" the edit mode and places a zero-width cursor at the point of the double-click. If you then double-click a second time, it selects the entire word that you double-clicked on, not the entire text.
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Guessing here: you have a staff text field displaying multiple words. You wish to select all those words.
If that's what you want, double-click the text field. That will give you a cursor somewhere in the text. Then press Ctrl+A. This is the shortcut for Select All (in many applications and situations) and this will select all the text in that one text field.
In case you simply want to delete the staff text box, single-click it and press the Delete key. (I doubt this is what you need, but in case ...)
Word of advice for the future: Explain your question in great detail. It's VERY, VERY hard to give us too much detail. It's very easy to give us too little and this question has definitely reached that end of the scale.
Or if you double click ... so it selects all text rather than just one word.
In reply to Or if you double click … by tommybanana
No, double-click "activates" the edit mode and places a zero-width cursor at the point of the double-click. If you then double-click a second time, it selects the entire word that you double-clicked on, not the entire text.
• Double-click to open the Text object
• Then triple-click to select all text in the Text object — or as mentioned, Control/Command+a
Works on MacOS. I don't know if this solution works on every OS.
In reply to Double-click to open the… by scorster
"To Select All Text in Stave Text Box", a triple-click is enough (it's a feature implemented in V3)
In reply to Triple-click is enough "to… by cadiz1
Slick!!! I had never known that before. Thanks!!!
FYI: it works on Windows too.
In reply to Double-click to open the… by scorster
OMG. How did you add that so quick. It is so exciting when you have an idea and then suddenly it gets .....
oh wait .... it was there along... ha ha.
Thanks _ i thought there must be a way but couldnt find it...