Switching Between Pages Of Scores
i have just downloaded sheet music and i opened it up with musescore and i hit the play button,and it went through like 3-4 pages,how do i go back to the origonal page or switch between each page?
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Your best bet it to read through the handbook to get a bit of familiarity with the program. It's on the right hand side of this page under "MuseScore Software".
Agreed, the Handbook is a good place to start. Also the tutorial videos on the main musescore.org page.
But to answer the question, page up / page down / home / end keys work (assuming your computer has them), also see the Navigator pane at the bottom of the screen, which shows thumbnails of each page and a blue rectangle you can move around to browse. Mouse scroll wheel can also be used, either alone to move vertically or with shift to move horizontally. And then you can simply drag the page. Lots of options here.
In reply to Agreed, the Handbook is a by Marc Sabatella
You say all that but it is not true.
I have the same problem.
I know it is something to do with what function you are in.
It won't work in note entry for instance... page up, page down, mouse wheel will cause things to happen you your notes.
I fluked it a while ago and learned that. Now I don't know what I did and can't get back to it.
There's no navigator pane unless I switch it on - which I just now learned to do, from 'view' menu.
I was out of note entry, had 'esc' three or four times to get out of everything, hopefully.
Page Up/Down did nothing. Mouse scroll didn't work.
The answer is: get out of note entry. Switch on navigator from View menu. Use it at bottom of page.
:) Power on.
In reply to You say all that but it is by abrogard
Not sure what is going on with your mouse settings, but the wheel / touch gesture for scrolling works fine in note input mode or not. So do page up / down.
In reply to Not sure what is going on by Marc Sabatella
Yes, they do. I just tried it again. My error. I don't know what was going on, either. Sorry about that. It quite definitely wasn't working for me at the time. Kept trying, went off googling for answers, came back still not working.
But, sure enough, works fine now.
Tried to edit my post, delete it, couldn't see how to do that. Perhaps a moderator can delete it.
Only thing at all valid about it now is perhaps the remark that navigator needs switching on from the view menu.
In reply to Yes, they do. I just tried by abrogard
On my Apple machine--in the absence of a wheel--there are only two ways to move the score: Drag and the navigator. Dragging is dangerous: you might click on a note to drag and you''ll e d up changing the pitch.
But: The navigator works brilliantly, especially for long distances.
In reply to On my Apple machine--in the by azumbrunn
Does your computer really not have a touchpad? If so, it almost certainly has a scroll gesture - maybe two finger swipe, maybe drag along the side, etc. It probably also has page up / down commands, although you might need to press Fn or some other key to activate them (eg, Fn+up or Fn+Left).
In reply to Does your computer really not by Marc Sabatella
See also https://musescore.org/en/node/108736
In reply to Does your computer really not by Marc Sabatella
It does have a touch pad of course. And--according to what I read about it--it has all sorts of extras with two, three and four fingers. But this is way too clever. I inadvertently touch the touch pad and the cursor jumps to some new location, especially when I work in a word processor--the second half of my word is inserted into an already finished paragraph. Or at other times the screen freezes upon a wrong touch and I have to swipe four fingers left to right to unfreeze it (this is the only multi finger move I have had to learn). Probably if I move two fingers parallel and the third in a circular motion I can move the score. I am not even going to try: Navigator will still work better.
I'd prefer a touch pad that does nothing but move the cursor and click and double click. And I want to be able to do it with my finger, my elbow or my nose if necessary.
In reply to It does have a touch pad of by azumbrunn
FWIW, it *is* worth trying - it works extremely well on every touchpad I have used it on. Probably just a two finger swipe, not sure why you'd think you also need a third finger in a circular motion. not just in MsueScore, but it's how I do almost all scrolling in almost all applications. It's how the device is designed to work, so it it really should be quite well optimized. Much more efficient than constantly needing to move the cursor back and forth between the navigator and the score, plus you get more screen real estate for the score if you don't need to give a big chunk of it up to the Navigator. Once I learned about this I never looked back.
But sure, the Navigator does work also.
In reply to FWIW, it *is* worth trying - by Marc Sabatella
Looks like I ought to have put a sarcasm alert into the post.
I still think all those two and three finger motions are too clever by more than half. I'll try it again, but I also like the navigator because I can target a specific page to move towards rather than setting the move in motion (bad English alert) and hope it stops at the correct point (I am often doing scores with 20 plus pages).
In reply to Looks like I ought to have by azumbrunn
Indeed, Navigator is great for moving directly to far reaches of a score; swiping is more appropriate for basic scrolling. I couldn't imagine being without either.