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beam note tool

I am a new registered user of this product and find that the beam note action does not respond despite trying all the various ways of activating it . I have selected the notes and the tool stubbornly refuses to activate HELP!

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Reply #1 –
You have to make sure that the ALL notes you are selecting are 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, or 1/64, exclusively. If by chance you are highlighting a rest, a 1/4 of anything else among the notes you are trying to beam, stubbornly, the command just won't work.

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Reply #2 –
If your using it properly you would select some expected multiple of notes, such as 2 or 4 or 8 eighths, 3 or 6 triplets, etc. Then hit Ctrl-B and away they Beam! If that doesn't work, then you really do have a software issue. Try reinstalling.
btw, Beaming is a 'toggle' function; if you Ctrl-B any notes that are beamed, it un-beams them.

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Reply #3 –
And there's always Automatic Beam in the Tools menu.

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Reply #4 –
I'm Sorry:
What annoys me quite a bit is to be unable to place a rest between beamed notes.

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Reply #5 –
I'd like to be able to beam across barlines and clef changes. I'd also like to be able to make a clef change within a triplet (or other n-tuplets, once NWC has them, but let's not go down that road).

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Reply #6 –
And if only we could be able to beam across staves.

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Reply #7 –
In response to Little Caesar's comment that it is annoying not to be able to beam over rests...there is a way. At the newsgroup an example of how to do this was posted by Fred way back on 3-11-00. There are many other helpful tricks and workarounds that have been shared at the newsgroup, so if you haven't done so already, you might want to visit there. There is a link in the site map here at the NW website.