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I have searched this forum and can only find various complicated ways of setting 8va sections in a piano score.
Is this really right? I have the latest version of NWC, 2.1

I would have thought that all one should need to do is to select the notes concerned and click on a "8va" button, or something equally simple.
Am I missing the obvious?

Robin

G'day Robin,
there isn't an 8va button.  But, it is simple enough to insert a clef with an octave shift, place the 8va indicator as text (along with any lines you might want) and then restore the octave shift with a normal clef.

To insert the clef, simply click the clef button on the toolbar, then highlight it (drag the mouse or <Shift+L/R Arrow), press <Alt+Enter> and select the Octave Shift required.  NB, if you make the clef non-printing you won't have a visible clef on the next system.  There are ways around this too, but it may simply be easiest to leave the octave shift and restore clef's visible.

You can also use Instrument changes (without actually changing the instrument!)

Ahh, thanks Peter...  I'd forgotten that approach - much better idea than my suggestion.

Thank you for those suggestions.
But when we pay for a program like this why should we have to spend time doing things in a roundabout way? I hope that the next version will incorporate an 8va button as I suggested. I am entering a piano piece which uses the non-existent command a dozen times or more.

See

https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=7581.msg52455#msg52455 (https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=7581.msg52455#msg52455)

Please see my reply in "arpeggios"

I'm trying to use the "instrument change" technique. Thanks for that

But it shifts the notes along to make room for the name of the instrument (even though I have set it as invisible)

(later) I see it won't when printed though....

Robin

You can remove the tick in "Preserve Width" on the Expression Placement tab to overcome the spacing issue.