This kind of view is sometimes called scroll view or gallery view in other programs.

Switch Panorama off again by choosing View >

Document View > Panorama, or clicking the status bar button again. You may have noticed the blue magic margin, which always dis-
plays the clef, key signature and instrument name for each staff, superimposed over the left-hand margin in Panorama view.

For more information about Panorama view, see  11.1 Document view in the Reference Guide.

Zooming
There are several ways to adjust the magnification of the score, but the quickest of these is by using the keyboard shortcuts for zooming:
press Command + “+” (Mac) or Control+ “+” (Windows) to zoom in, or Command+ “–” (Mac) or Control+ “–” (Windows) to zoom
out. If you have a note or other object selected then Sibelius zooms in on the thing you select. Try clicking on the first note of the vocal
staff in the Scarborough Fair score and zooming in. Notice as you do this how the percentage zoom factor shown in the drop-down list
on the toolbar changes. You can select a particular zoom factor preset from the list, or type in your own.

If you have a mouse with a wheel button, you can zoom in and out smoothly by holding Command (Mac) or Control (Windows) while
scrolling the wheel up and down.

Try zooming out so that you can see the whole page of music on your screen. Then zoom back in to 100%, which is a convenient size
for doing most things in Sibelius.

Hiding and Showing Panels

If your screen starts to get cluttered, then you can use the checkboxes in View > Panels to hide any panel (including the Navigator).

The Keypad at the bottom right of the screen is an indispensible tool for inputting notes, accidentals, articulations, ties and other mark-
ings, and can be shown or hidden by switching View > Panels > Keypad on or off.

You can also hide all panels by choosing View > Panels > Hide All. Click the button again to show the panels you had open previously.

Versions
While you work on a piece of music, it can be very useful to save different versions of the same score—especially if you’re going to ex-
periment, or you want to produce different arrangements of the same piece. Sibelius allows you to store all of these different versions
in the same file, so that you can go backwards (or forwards) in time through the life of your score.

All of the project files you’ll be working on in these tutorials have a number of different versions, corresponding to the chapter headings,
so you can easily see where to start working from.

You can quickly see which version you’re viewing—and view other versions in the file—by referring to the document tabs, below the
ribbon. These allow you to open multiple different views of the same document inside a single window.

You can open new tabs using the + button at the right-hand side of the document tab bar, which opens a menu showing all the available
views from the current score, including versions. You can also reach this menu by right-clicking (or Control-clicking on Mac) anywhere
on the document tab bar.

Plus button

All saved versions except the Current version are non-editable, so you won’t be able to change anything in the score, although you can
play them, print them, select notes and other objects, and copy music from them. To view another version, choose it from the menu to
open it in a new document tab.

You’ll need a printout of the finished arrangement of Scarborough Fair to refer to while completing the rest of this project, so let’s print
one now. Choose Review > Versions > Edit Versions or click to open the Edit Versions dialog. From the list of versions, select 1 Open-
ing a file, and click Make Current. Sibelius will ask you if you want to make this version the current one, and make a new non-editable
version of the existing one. Click Yes. You should now see a completed arrangement of Scarborough Fair without the string staves vis-
ible.

See  10.4 Versions in the Reference Guide for more details.

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Opening a Score