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Hi Mike, 

Thanks for creating MobileSheetsPro and providing this wonderful resource for users and being so responsive to requests :-) I have been using it on and off for some years, but in the last six months have been using it almost daily and love it. 

I am wondering whether there is any way to select a number of annotations and copy them as a group to paste elsewhere in the same score. I am a classical pianist - often there are passages in a piece which are identical and so the same fingering and information is relevant in more than one place. The layout is often not identical in the repeated notation, so I can't just copy the page and paste it elsewhere in the score.

Because I add my annotations a little at a time as I work on a piece, and I use a mix of typing and hand writing, they are all separate little annotations. Copying and pasting each of these annotations one at a time would take just as long as actually writing them all in one at a time. It would be fabulous to select a group of annotations for several bars/measures and then copy them to the new place. I may have to adjust the individual annotations in the new place, if the page layout is not quite identical, so I wouldn't want to lock the annotations into an unchangeable group. 

I have searched through a number of threads on editing but I haven't found info on anything quite like this. 

I am using a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2.

Thanks
Bee

Hello Bee,

At the moment, it's not possible to copy/paste multiple annotations at once because I didn't provide a mechanism to initiate the copy when multiple annotations are selected. The long press will deselect all but one. I'll have to add a new icon to trigger this and update the paste code to handle multiple annotations instead of just one.  If getting this in the short term would be a huge help to you, I can try to slip it into an update sooner, otherwise I will include it with the annotations rework which will be released after the library synchronization update.

Mike

Thanks Mike, 

It would be a great advantage to me to have this ability, however, I am content to wait for it to come when you are ready. 

Thank you for being so responsive to user requests :-)

Cheers
Bee

I'm also interested in this feature. On my Mac, I can't seem to find any way to select multiple annotations at once. I can't use "Swap File" to preserve the underlying reference, since the new one has been hand-edited by me, and is no longer a part of a multi-page PDF book. So now I'm going to have to select (and position) each annotation one at a time.

Unless there's a way to do it now?

Yes, you can do it now. Just tap the selection tool, select multiple annotations, tap the copy icon in the edit bar, then long press on a page and tap "Paste". It will paste all of the copied annotations. You can also select multiple annotations using then layers window.

Mike

(04-22-2024, 05:41 AM)Zubersoft Wrote: [ -> ]You can also select multiple annotations using then layers window.

Oh, that's a cool trick. Yes, to be clear, what I couldn't figure out was how to even copy multiple annotations. I guess it makes sense that the familiar macOS features of Shift-click and Cmd-click don't work for an iPad-based app. But now I found:

1) press-and-hold on the arrow which selects everything
2) dragging a selection rectangle to select multiple
3) your cool layers approach

Thanks!!