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Many of the editing operations can be applied to more than just the selected note using block operations (also known as "extended selections"). There are several ways of defining such a block. Method 1 applies to making a block of the entire tablature. This is most easily accomplished using the keyboard shortcut [ Method 2 is to move your mouse pointer to the point where you want to begin the block and then keep the left mouse button held down while "dragging" the pointer to desired ending point for the block. Moving the pointer to the far right (or left if you're creating a block in the other direction) will automatically scroll the tablature in that direction until you reach its end. Method 3 requires that you place the cursor at the starting point for the block and then use the scroll bar at the lower right of the window to scroll to the desired end measure for the block and, finally, shift-clicking on the exact point (string) at which the end of the block is to be located. Methods 2 and 3 can be applied to all strings, multiple adjoining strings or to a single string at a time. As concerns method 3, the selection of starting and ending points must be made with some care. If, for example, you place the cursor on the 3rd string of, say, measure 4 to mark the beginning of the block, shift-clicking on the 1st string of measure 14 will select strings 1, 2 and 3 while shift-clicking on the 6th string will select strings 3, 4, 5 and 6. Simply double-clicking within a given measure will create a block of its entire contents. Blocks can be extended in all directions from the keyboard. [Shift]+[
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