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Pizzicato lets you to manage several versions of the same
measure or of a whole section of your score. This possibility can
be useful during the composition for example. The various
versions of the measures are memorized with the document and can
be selected for playing. If a measure has several versions, the
current version is the one you see on the score and it is this
version that will be played. Let us see that in practice.
- In a new document, fill in the following measures:

- Select the last measure and click with the right mouse
button (option-click on Mac). In the menu, select the Versions...,
New version item. The content of the last measure
seems to have disappeared. Use the reference marks tool
(shortcut ":") and you will see:

- The 2/2 indication in red shows that this measure
contains two versions and that the viewed version is the
second one. The first digit is the current version and
the second is the total number of versions. Measures that
contain only one version (i.e. all other measures) do not
show this indication. Fill in this measure to get:

- To get your first version back, select the measure, call
the contextual menu (right click) to select the Versions...,
Change version, Version 1 item. The
score displays the first version of the measure:

- The 1/2 indication specifies that version 1 is visible
and that this measure contains two versions. What we did
here can be done with several selected measures and
staves, or for the full score if needed. You can add as
many versions as necessary to one or more measures. It is
up to you to manage the versions and know what you do
with them.
Duplicate / delete a version [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist]
The version created herebefore was empty. You can also create
a version based on the current version, with the purpose to
slightly modify it.
- Select the first 3 measures of the score and with a right
click, select the Versions..., Duplicate
version item. You get:

- Three measures were duplicated in a second version. By
modifying these notes slightly, your score then contains
two complete versions of these 4 measures. To go from one
version to the other, select the measures and change the
versions as previously explained. Select all measures and
choose version 1. If you modified version 2, you get
version 1 back:

- To remove a version, select the measures and call the Versions...
Delete version contextual menu. Select measure 4 and
delete the version, you get:

- The current version is deleted and Pizzicato displays the
remaining version (we removed version 1; version 2 thus
becomes version 1, because the versions are always
numbered from 1 up to the number of versions). Notice
that it is impossible to remove the single version of a
measure because a measure has always at least one
version.
A remark must be done when using the copy/paste functions.
When you copy/paste one or more measures, only the current
version is affected by the operation. It is the same for all
operations done with a measure (justification, transcription,
MIDI data modification...).