

Here are a few more uses, specific to note entry: Note that you can simply use these keystrokes with the Selection tool to resort to defaults: you don’t have to choose a specific tool beforehand.

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While the full list of keyboard shortcuts are provided here, here are a few of the most common ways this keystroke can save you time by resetting or reverting the positioning of an item to the default setting: There are many places you can put this to use. I like to think of Delete as being more d estructive. In contrast, you’d use Delete to completely remove the element from your score. When you want to remove formatting or positioning. When would you use Clear, Backspace, or Function-Shift-Delete in Finale? We can now type Function-Shift-Delete to clear information (as folks with more robust keyboards have done for years). The keystroke added in 25.5 is for all the rest of us Mac users who have a smaller keyboard offering only the Delete key. Some Mac users own an extended keyboard that includes a numpad on the right side with a Clear key next to the Equal (=) key. Windows users have a Backspace to accomplish the same results as the Clear key. For example, in Microsoft Excel, Clear will remove contents of a cell, while Delete will remove the cell from the document.

In most applications, Clear and Delete mean different things. As I mentioned previously, in Finale version 25.5 the keystroke Function-Shift-Delete was added as an alternative for the Clear key on Macintosh computers.
