Is there a way to copy a selection that has bars with different time signature so that the bars with different time signatures will be copied correctly?
Something analogous to the feature in Sibelius - ‘system selection’ if I remember correctly.
IB
It appears not. However, you can select the time signatures as a group - command click (Mac) each in succession, then paste; the correct number of bars are then pasted in with the respective time signatures. Then you can go back and select the pitches the usual way(s) and paste those.
Perhaps there is an easier way, but this worked for me.
Thank you, R.
Despite being somewhat convoluted 
, it does help.
IB
I suspect there is an easier way - I’m just learning this, myself, so it’s the blind leading the - well, I hope your vision is better than mine!
I can’t recall whose painting is that.
But regardless, I wouldn’t come up with something that peculiar.
Can’t wait for a manual that would cover (or shall I say ‘uncover’) every detail.
You don’t have to paste twice. Select the notes, Cmd-click on the time sigs, and paste the whole thing.
Also - if you grab (click-drag) the whole piece of music with the mouse, the time sigs will be selected with the notes and all. This is probably the fastest method.
Well, it’s a classic case of not seeing what is just ‘in-front’ of your eyes!
I tried making selection by selecting the first measure of a passage and shift-clicking the last measure, and didn’t pay attention that in this way the time signatures were not selected.
Thank you very much indeed.
IB
+1
Hi.
Is there an update on this topic?
I am trying to copy and paste a group of measures with many time signatures changes.
The time signatures aren’t selected automatically, neither are tempo marks.
I can add them one by one with ctrl+click, but is there a way to select them all automatically (without selecting the whole piece, just this group of measures)?
Thank you.
You shall use the system track (toggles with alt-T). That is what it is here for.
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Hi Marc,
How exactly?
I mean, even if I select the measures on the system track, the time signatures are not selected to be copied.
You have not yet made a selection.
You need to select that empty square in bar 85!
Oh ok, thank you, that worked.
Btw, I have just noticed on the image that there were two measures 85!
That was weird.
When I changed the time signature from 2/2 to 2/4. It might have been a glitch when I was changing the time signatures with the melody already written, not sure.