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## Multiple windows and Excerpt

### Multiple windows

NtEd allowes you to open as many windows as you want. This is useful if you want to compare two different scores or if you want to copy parts of one score to another score. To open a new window choose:

File → New Window

a new window appears:

With the new window you can do all you could do with the first one. If you want to copy/paste between different windows please make shure both windows are in edit mode (see The 3 modes):

See also: Block instructions.

To delete a window choose:

File → Close Window

### Extract a subset of staves

NtEd allows you to copy a subset of staves into the 2nd window. To do this choose:

File → Excerpt ...

The staff selection dialog appears:

Select the subset of ataves, to be copied. To select more than 1 staff press Ctrl during selection. To select a range of staves press and hold Shift. Then select the first and the last staff of the range.

Press `Ok`! The subset of staves is copied into a 2nd window:

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