When I’m moving around with page down and page up I sometimes navigate quite far from what I have selected for editing. Is there a way to quickly move the selection to somewhere in the visible screen?
For example, if I go page down two times and then press an arrow key I get pack to the page where I started because I selected something there. That’s sometimes what I want. But other times I want to quickly select something in the new viewport.
Welcome to the forum! If you are avoiding clicking the mouse to select, you can type Ctrl+D to deselect all first, then an arrow key to select the first visible item. See Selecting items individually in the manual for more options.
But a mouse or trackpad is the best tool for selecting an arbitrary item on the screen.
Thank you. That works quite well! Though I wish it select in the middle of the screen. But I get that a mouse is meant for this. I’m just trying to avoid clicking.
You might find it helpful to assign a keyboard shortcut to the command Center Selection, which you can find in the Key Commands page of Preferences.
Hello Urban,
welcome to the forum.
There is a key command (I think it is Ctrl-D). If you press it, it will de-select your initial selection and you are free to move to any place with Page-Up, Page-Down etc.
Here is a list, where you can see Key Commands for Dorico, including navigation. The list is old, but still most of the commands are valid:
Right, to center selection after doing ctrl-d arrow.
Is there a way to bind this to a macro. So that a button will do
ctrl+d (deselect),arrow(select closest),center selection ?
just thinking: if you deselected, where should the arrow link to?
If you have a selection, you can easily navigate from that selection with the arrow keys.
If you don’t have a selection, „closest“ doesn’t really mean anything.
You will actively (with the mouse) have to make a new selection. I don’t see a way how this step can be avoided.
@k_b Please see my post #2 above. It includes a link to the manual page that answers these questions.
@urban.kristan You can record yourself doing these steps and save a macro. See the Script menu (undocumented as yet).
@k_b Arrow with no selection seems to just select the first visible note, so that’s fine.
@Mark_Johnson I think this menu probably isn’t available for the free version of Dorico. I don’t know if elements has it. Anyway, it’s not that important. Just a minor convenience. Thank you for the assistance.
Sorry Mark, I was typing my answer as #2 - then after having posted it the page refreshed and I noticed, you and Daniel had also answered way before me…
Scripting is restricted to Dorico Pro.