Moving the Green Bar in Sibelius

Hello,

For those of you who don't know the "Green Bar"....

In Sibelius (4 & 5), the green bar on your score page (main screen) indicates what measure you are in.

Also, the music plays from where the green bar is; although, the green bar sometimes moves a beat before, automatically, and plays.

You can also freely move the green bar with your mouse. You don't have to tap your right arrow key about 400 times to reach from bar 1 to bar 400.

This is a good feature; probably one of the most important feature.

But...

I was wondering if there is a way to move the green bar with your arrow keys?

This is important, because sometimes i would like to shift couple bars before (or after) where i left off (stopped listening or stopped composing) and it's really pissing me off that i can only control/move it with the mouse.

I should be a little more thankful, to able to have this wonderful program, but I just wanted to know if that can be done?

If not...

Can Finale or some other software do this?

Thanks.

Open "Preferences" in "File" Menu, then in "Menus and Shortcuts" you'll find all the key commands and you can edit them.

i.e: "Move forward a single frame" is configured with "Shift +

Rather than using the playback bar, I use the "Play from selection feature." Select any object and press p. The playback will start from where your selection is.

Rather than using the playback bar, I use the "Play from selection feature." Select any object and press p. The playback will start from where your selection is.

I can't believe I didn't know this until now. THANK YOU! This will be a tremendous help.

I can't believe I didn't know this until now. THANK YOU! This will be a tremendous help.

Really? It was how playback was done before they made the space bar playback oriented when they changed it in Sib. 4. Glad to be a help! :)

:w00t::w00t::w00t::w00t:

Thanks a bunch!!

Also, pressing Y while selecting a measure will automatically move the green bar over the measure

I always do what justin says ... pressing the "P" but I thought you wanted to configure the key-arrows ...

I also imput the notes with "R" repeting the last one and then changing the position or measure with the arrows and Number keyboard.... actually I had to buy a new keyboard because I broke the R key for so much using.