MuseScore: Easy way to move entire verses of lyrics
I set a text to music, but I started too low when writing the song text into MuseScore (because there had been lyrics already, which I deleted beforehand as I recall). Now there are three "empty lines", and only then the first verse starts.
Is there a way to move all lyrics three lines up? See picture...
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Unfortunately, MuseScore's lyrics functions are poorly implemented, which makes them very hard to edit or move en masse. As far as I know, there is no way to move these all simultaneously. Your options are to retype them all or move each lyric segment.
Ctrl-Right Click on the individual words you want to move and then with the Ctrl Key down drag the lyrics up. I guess the command key would work for Mac users.
Here are instructions valid as of MuseScore 3.5.0.13199 Revision 43c5553 (Windows 10).
Right click on the verse you want to remove, and choose select -> more....
In the select dialog, click the same subtype option, then click the ok button.
Press delete.
Right-click on the verse to be moved, and repeat step #2 .
In the Element Inspector (press F8 if not showing), in the Lyrics section, decrement the verse number.
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Again, but with pictures ...
1) Right click on the verse you want to remove, and choose select -> more....
2) In the select dialog, click the same subtype option, then click the ok button.
Your score will look something like this.
3) Press delete.
4) Right-click on the verse to be moved, and repeat step #2 .
In the Element Inspector (press F8 if not showing), in the Lyrics section, decrement the verse number.
This section is at the bottom of the Inspector window
Your lyrics move as you make Inspector changes
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