Display Menu
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This provides easy menu access to the various "View" scales which control the display width of measures on your monitor screen. It also allows you to select which palettes and other tools you wish to have displayed in your working area.
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Scale to 1/8th...1/64th Notes
The four items in this section of the menu represent the "View" modes available to you. 1/8th note mode will give you the maximum number of measures on your screen but can be a little tight to work with as the various symbols may have a tendency to overlap. 1/16th note mode (which is the default setting) displays fewer measures on the screen but, at the same time, gives you a little more elbow room. I (Tom) tend to use 1/32nd note mode. This gives me two full measures per screen at a resolution of 1024x768 on a 15" screen or three measures at 1280x1024 on a 19" screen. For very detailed work requiring, for example, 1/32nd note septuplets you must use 1/64th Note mode. This mode is available only from the menu or the ruler. The first three modes mentioned above can also be accessed via the keyboard shortcuts [F7...F9].
Palettes
TablEdit provides you with a series of "Palettes" giving you on-screen access to a wide variety of the features of the program.
{Display>Fingerboard} opens an auxilliary window which is by default displayed along the right-hand side of the main screen. This represents the fingerboard (fretboard) of the instrument. You can have it displayed horizontally by anchoring its window at either the top or bottom of the main screen or by selecting the appropriate screen in Options>Screen. You can toggle the display on and off using the keyboard shortcut [Ctrl]+[B]. In order to modify the width of the fingerboard display, adjust the size of the auxilliary window while it's floating free of the main window.
If a capo has been assigned to the instrument in the current module, it will be displayed at the assigned fret position.
If you dock the fingerboard onto the left side of the screen, the display will show a left handed instrument.
If the instrument is a concertina or an accordion, TablEdit displays the keyboard of the instument.
This window displays the measures of the various modules as rows of small buttons. These, in turn, contain a green rectangle if the measure represented contains at least one note.
Currently selected measures are shown as pressed buttons.
Clicking on one of these buttons will immediately move the screen display to the measure and module it represents.
The module names are displayed to the left: in green when the module is audible or in red when it's been muted. You can mute or unmute each module by simply clicking on it's name. If you press [Ctrl] as you click, all the other instruments are muted
Complete measures, that is to say those whose cumulative note and rest values correspond exactly to the rhythmic signature, are displayed in green. Incomplete measures are shown in yellow and measures exceeding the signatures length are shown in red.
Suppose that you have previously copied from some external program the text corresponding to an ABC song or to an ASCII tablature you want to import into TablEdit. This command opens a secondary window that retrieves the contents of the clipboard.
You can choose to import the text as ASCII or ABC by clicking the Import button 
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You might as well get the contents of the current module in ASCII format or ABC by clicking the Export button
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You can then make changes to the text directly and verify their impact on the tablature by clicking the Import button.
This command opens an small secondary window that displays the current and following measures as they will be printed. This allows you to test instantaneously the result of the changes you make to your tablature.
The Module List
The last item is a list of all the modules in the current tablature. The module names correspond, by default, to the instrument selected for each module. This can be altered to any name of your choice (e.g. "First guitar", "Second guitar", etc.) in {Score}{Instrument...}.