Navigational Tools Palette

How to get there

From the Window menu, choose Navigational Tools Palette.

What it does

This palette contains the Hand Grabber Tool and Zoom Tool..

• [Close box]. Click this small button at the upper-right corner of the palette to close the palette. Once it’s hidden, you make the palette reappear by choosing Advanced Tool Palette from the Window menu.
• [Title bar]. Drag the strip across the top (or left) edge of the palette to move the entire palette to a new screen location.
• [Sizable frame]. Click on the very edge of the palette and drag the sizable frame to reshape the entire palette. As you drag, the palette snaps into new configurations: tall and thin, short and stout, square, and so on. If your monitor is wider than it is tall, for example, you might consider rotating the palette so that it’s a short horizontal strip.

If you drag the resize box inward toward the upper-left corner, you hide tools. Drag the resize box outward again to bring them back into view.

• [Tool icons]. See the individual tool for a complete discussion of each tool and what it does. In the meantime, note that you can rearrange the icons within the palette. To do so, press shift and drag an icon into a new position; it will trade places with the icon onto which you drop it. Keep in mind, too, that you can save these configurations of tools for quick access; see View menu for instructions. See the Customize Toolbar dialog box.

Hand Grabber Tool  

Use this tool to drag music in any direction to shift its position on your screen, as though you’re sliding the score page across your desk.

Zoom Tool  

Use this tool to magnify or reduce the music as it’s displayed on the screen.  

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