Maddeningly simple question about saving score templates

• Feb 2, 2019 - 18:25

Hi friends

This is driving me crazy. I created a custom template for my quartet (tango: bandoneon, violin, piano, bass).

All I want to do is save the template so that I can use it again next time the new score wizard opens up. I will be using this template again and again.

I went online to ask how to do this.

Over and over again I see the same comment. It's in the handbook, it's written in forum posts, and it says basically, "Simple! just save your template to the User Templates folder!"

Well that's awesome.

But ... um ... HOW?

HOW do I save it to the user templates folder?

I am searching in vain for a button or a pulldown menu item or something, somewhere, that lets me save to the user templates folder. Am I missing something?

Can anyone help me figure out HOW to save it, once I've created it, to the user templates folder?

thanks!

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• Feb 2, 2019 - 18:35

OK this is why I was confused. I was imagining that a "template" file would somehow be a different animal from a "musescore" file. Now that I understand that any musescore file can BECOME a template, I can see what the procedure is:

1) just build your desired template
2) either before (or after) you start to write in notes, just save the musescore file. There is no special "save template" function because the file itself IS the template.
3) just be sure you save it to the right place (i.e. the "user templates" folder)

Then, when you reboot, it will show up in the wizard under whatever working title you gave it

Note that this means that a template can include any amount of actual score. It's not just a collection of instruments, it's a fully fledged blank-slate musescore file with however much material already in it as you might want.

ANSWERED MY OWN QUESTION, YAY!

(leaving this here, in case anyone else was confused by this)

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