Staff area handles can be also grabbed from the small red and blue area between two staff menus. No other handles can exceed the boundaries defined by the staff area.

Using these handles, one can adjust how much space is reserved to a staff, and hence the distance between staves. They control the staff area, (the area which can be used to input symbols and other objects on the staff).

Staff area handles, represented as blue arrows, which appear above the first staff on the page, as well as under every staff.

There are several types of such handles, including: Holding the Shift key will affect all staves in the score, while holding the Shift key and dragging with right-click will result in altering all the staves belonging to the current group. Dragging the handles while holding the Ctrl key or with right-click instead of left-click will only affect the current handle only. This will result in altering all the similar handles used to control the same staff, in whatever group it is displayed. They are moved by clicking and dragging them up or down with the mouse. These handles take the shape of a triangle facing rightwards, displayed immediately after the staff menu.

Staff handles, useful to position individual staves and design spacings between staves.

The staff menu, which is probably the most widely used function of control handles.

4.3 Display clef change on previous lineД¬ontrol handles Score > Page mode setup > Display control handlesД¬ontrol handles are a collection of very useful tools which control page margins, staff and bar options, etc.

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