Delete lyrics?

Is there a way to select an entire section of music and one-click delete all its lyrics?

I’m only finding awkward ways to do this:

• I can click on an individual syllable and delete it, but then I’ve got hundreds
• In Write mode, in Galley view, I can sort of oddly lasso around lyrics and if I get lucky I lasso the right thing (not including its notes) and can delete it, but it only works for one screenful at a time and one stave at a time. I need to delete dozens of measures of lyrics and four staves.
• I wish I could click on the first syllable, shift-click the last syllable, then hit delete, but this doesn’t work either. This selects the notes too, and if I hit delete, I lose my notes, which is not what I want.

Any reason there isn’t a simple Edit > Lyrics > Remove command?

Side note: in my second example (lasso/rectangle-select a passage of music) it’d be super dooper helpful if elements highlighted DURING the mouse-down so I could see what I was selecting. Dorico doesn’t do this, so I have to release my mouse to then discover I was one pixel away from enclosing the right elements in my selection rectangle.

I’m in 3.5 BTW.

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Select your section (It’s often easiest to use the system track for this as it selects everything).
Then Edit>filter>Lyrics>All lyrics
Then hit delete.
(Almost a single click)

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Or even faster (if you’re doing it often), set a jump bar command for this: fl, which is what I’ve done. So it’s jfl Enter.

(Both OP and I are still on D3.5)

Oops. Heh. Reading is hard, sorry.

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Thanks very much. Makes sense.

Still I would recommend to give the “Filter all Lyrics” a keyboard shortcut.

Mine is cmd-F, L (yes, sequential shortcut)