No keyboard shortcut to switch measures when typing chord symbols (MS4)
In MuseScore 4, I cannot seem to move between measures when entering chord symbols. In MuseScore 3, I used to be able to do this with the Tab key. I see in the handbook that I should be able to use Command plus the right arrow key (I assume that's what that means) but nothing happens if I type that that while editing the chord symbol text.
Please fix this! Most of the music I write uses chord symbols and having to type notes manually makes the process incredibly slow. I would love to have the old Tab back, because a single-key shortcut was so convenient; I understand that the cmd+right arrow is consistent with moving measures when editing notes; no matter what the keyboard shortcut is, please just don't make me click every individual note I want to add a chord symbol to!
I am using a MacBook Air M2 running MacOS Ventura 13.4.
Comments
If Cmd+Right doesn't work on your keyboard, try redefining the "go to next measure" command to use something else involving Right or Space (with modifiers) in your Edit / Preferences / Shortcuts. Apparently certain keyboards don't transmit the Cmd+Right key command the way MuseScore expects. There is a fix for that coming in 4.1
Anyhow, you certain;y don't need to click every note. Semicolon, for example, advances by beta. So ;;;; will get you to the next measure in 4/4.
In reply to If Cmd+Right doesn't work on… by Marc Sabatella
Marc, I see that the semicolon does indeed work. Thanks for that tip.
Is there a way to define a tab as a keyboard shortcut? I tried it for this and nothing showed up when just pressed Tab. When I pressed Shift+Tab, it seemed like the Tab key showed up. However, once I was editing a chord symbol. Shift+Tab seemed to add a space instead of moving anywhere.
In reply to Marc, I see that the… by mirinisa
Tab is reserved for navigating the user interface itself, as per standard accessibiltiy / user interface guidelines.